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THE 


HOLY BIBLE, 


CONTAINING 


THE OLD AND NEW COVENANT, 
THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT: 


FROM THE GREEK. 


BY CHARLES THOMSON, 
Late Secretary to the Congress of the United States. 


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District of Pennsylvania. 


THE 


OLD COVENANT, 


COMMONLY CALLED 


THE OLD TESTAMENT: 


TRANSLATED FROM 


THE SEPTUAGINT. 


By CHARLES THOMSON, 


Late Secretary to the Congress of the United States. 


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I. THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. 


THE Proverbs of David’s son Solomon, who reigned 
over Israel, to give a knowledge of wisdom and instruction— 
the perception of the words of prudence—the interpretation 
of sentences—a discernment of true justice ; and to direct 
judgment, that he might give sagacity to the innocent ; and 
to the youth knowledge and discretion: for by attending to 
them a wise man will become wiser ; and a man of under- 
standing will possess a rule of government and will under- 
stand a proverb and dark speech and the sayings of the wise 
and parables. 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And all 
who practise this have good understanding. And piety towards 
God is the beginning of discernment : but the wicked despise 
wisdom and instruction. 

My son, hear the instruction of thy father and reject not 
the maxims of thy mother: for thou wilt receive a graceful 
crown for thy head; and a chain of gold for thy neck. 

My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not 
when they advise thee, saying, Come with us; partake of blood; 
and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause, 
and swallow him up alive, as the grave, and take away from 
earth the remembrance of him. Let us seize his precious sub- 
stance and fill our houses with spoils. Cast in thy lot among 
us, and let us all have a common purse. Let one scrip serve us. 
Go not thou in the way with them; but turn thy foot from their 
paths. For nets are not spread for birds unjustly. For they who 
are accomplices to murder, treasure up evils for themselves. 
And doleful is the destruction of wicked men. Such are the 
ways of all who commit iniquitous deeds. For by wickedness 
they destroy their own soul. | 

Wisdom uttereth her song at the gates and in the streets 
speaketh boldly; and on the tops of walls she maketh procla- 
mation; and at the gates of mighty men taketh a seat and at the 
gates of a city with confidence saith, 

“While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put 
to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having 
become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable 
to censures. Behold I will pour forth to you the dictate of my 


spirit: and teach you this word of mine—seeing I have called 


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and you have not answered : and though I continued my 
speech, you did not attend : but set at naught my counsels ἀπά... 
disregarded my reproofs : therefore I will laugh at your calam- 
ity; and mock when your destruction cometh. Yes, when tu- 
mult shall suddenly come upon you; and destruction like a 
whirlwind shall be at hand—even when tribulation and siege 
approach you; or when destruction is advancing upon you. 
For when you call upon me I will not listen to you. The wick- 
ed may seek me, but they shall not find me. For they hated 
wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord : nor would 
they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs: Let 
them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled 
with their own iniquity. For, because they wronged infants 
they shall be slain: and a rigorous inquest shall destroy the 
wicked. But he who hearkeneth to me shall dwell with hope; 
and rest secure from all evil.” 

My son, if thou wilt receive the dictate which I enjoin 
and hide it with thee, thine ear will hearken to wisdom; and 
thou wilt apply thy heart to understanding, and transmit it for 
instruction to thy son. For if thou wilt call upon wisdom : 
and utter thy voice for understanding—if thou wilt seek for it 
as silver; and search for it as for treasures; then thou shalt 
understand the fear of the Lord; and find the knowledge of 
God. For the Lord giveth wisdom; and from his presence is 
knowledge and understanding: and he treasureth up salva- 
tion forthe upright. He will protect their going, that they may 
keep the paths of rectitude. And he will guard the way of 
them who reverence him. Then thou shalt understand judg- 
ment and justice; and direct all thy wheels right. For when 
wisdom entereth into thine understanding : and knowledge ap- 
peareth pleasant to thy soul: good counsel will keep thee, and 
holy prudence will guard thee : that she may deliver thee from 
an evil way and from a man who speaketh perversely. 

Alas for them who leave straight paths to walk in the ways 


14 of darkness; who are delighted with evils and have joy in evil 
15 perversion; whose ways are crooked, and whose paths turn 


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aside to lead thee far from the straight road and estrange thee 
from a just determination. 


My son, let not evil counsel, who hath for saken the atk 


Ch. ΠῚ. PROVERBS. 


pline of youth and hath forgotten the divine covenant, take 

18 hold of thee. For she hath placed her house near death; and 
her wheels with the earth born near the mansion of the 

19 dead. None who walk by her direction can ever return; nor 

20 ever recover the right paths. For they are not taken hold of 
by years of life. If they indeed had walked in good ways: 

21 they would have found the paths of justice smooth. Because 
the upright shall inhabit the land; and the holy shall be left in 

22 it; the ways of the wicked shall be destroyed from the land; 
and the transgressors shall be driven out of it. 

Ilfl.. | My son, forget not my laws; but let thy heart keep my 
commandments. For they will add to thee length of days and 
years of life and peace. 

2 Let not acts of kindness and faithfulness forsake thee : but 
bind them about thy neck and thou shalt find favour. Be pro- 
vident in regard to things good in the sight of the Lord and 
5 of men. Trust in God with thy whole heart; and be not elated 
6 for thine own wisdom. Shew it in all thy ways, thatit may make 
7 thy paths straight. Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear 
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God and depart from all evil: then shall thy body have health 
and thy bones a cure. Honour the Lord with some of thy 
righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of 
10 righteousness: that thy barns may be plenteously filled with 
corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine. 
11 My son, slight not the correction of the Lord; nor faint 
12 when reproved by him : for whom the Lord loveth he reproy- 
eth : and chastiseth every son whom he receiveth. 
19 Happy the man, who hath found wisdom : and the mortal 
14 who hath seen prudence: for it is better to traffick for her, 
15 than for treasures of gold and silver. She is more precious 
than costly stones : and nothing evil can be compared to her. 
She is easily known by all who approach her; but no price is 
16 equal to her in value. For length of days and years of life are 
in her right hand; and in her left, riches and glory. Out of her 
mouth proceedeth righteousness : and on her tongue she car+ 
17 rieth law and mercy. Her ways are ways of pleasantness and 
18 all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to all who take 
hold of her; and safe for them who rely on her, as on the Lord. 
19 By wisdom God founded the earth; and by understanding he 


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furnished the heavens. By knowledge the deeps were broken 
up and the clouds distilled dew. 

My son, be not wanting in retention: but keep my counsel, 
namely, the sentiment : that thy soul may live and that grace 
may be around thy neck : and it will be health to thy flesh and 
a cure for thy bones; that thou mayst proceed on in all thy 
ways in peace and security; and that thy foot may not stumble. 
For when thou liest down, thou shalt be free from fear: and 
when thou sleepest, thou shalt sleep sweetly; and shalt not fear 
the bursting in of terror; nor the sudden assaults of wicked 
men. For the Lord will be over all thy ways, and will support 
thy foot that thou mayst not be shaken. : 

Delay not to do good to the needy, when it is in the power 
of thy hand to help. Do not say, Go away and come again : to- 
morrow 1 will give; when thou hast it in thy power to do 
good: for thou knowest not what to-morrow will bring forth. 

Devise not evils against thy friend; who sojourneth with 
thee’ and confideth in thee. | 

Be not at enmity with a man without cause; lest he do thee 
some mischief. 

Acquire not the reproaches of bad men, nor be fond of 
their ways. For every transgressor is impure in the sight of 
the Lord: and among the righteous he taketh not a seat. 

The curse of God is in the houses of the wicked: but the . 
folds of the righteous are blessed. The Lord resisteth the proud; 
but he granteth favour to the humble. The wise shall inherit 
glory; bout the. wicked have extolled dishonour. 3 

Hear, O children, the instructions of a father; and end 
to know the meaning : for Iam giving you a good gift; forsake 
not my law: for I was a son obedient to a father; and beloved 
in the sight of a mother: and they said when they taught me, 

‘¢ Let our words sink deep in thy heart. Keep our com-- 
mandments; do not forget—overlook not the dictate of my 
mouth: forsake it not, and it will defend thee : love it and it 
will preserve thee: secure it and it will exalt thee : honour it 
thatit may embrace thee: that it may be to thy head a crown 
of graces and cover thee with a crown of pleasure.” 

Hear my son and receive my words; that, when the years 
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a livelihood: for Iam teaching thee ways of wisdom; and 
confirming thee in right paths. For when thou goest, thy steps 
will not be straitened : and when thou runnest thou shalt not 
be tired. Take fast hold of mine instruction, let it not go: but 
keep it for thyself during thy life. Go not in the ways of wick- 
ed men; nor be fond of the ways of transgressors. In what 
place soever they encamp, go not thither: but turn away from 
them and keep at a distance: for they cannot sleep. Unless 
they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot 
lie down to rest. For they eat the bread of wickedness; and 
drink plentifully of the wine of violence. But the paths of the’ 
just shine like light; shining more and more until it is perfect 
day. But the ways of the wicked being dark; they know not 
at what they stumble. 

Attend, my son, to my speech, and incline thine ear to my 
words. That thy fountains may not fail thee, keep them in thy 
heart; for they are life to them who find them and health to all 
flesh. Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are 
the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and 
put perverse lips far from thee. Let thine eyes look straight 
forward and thine eyelids wink justly. Make straight paths 
with thy feet and order all thy ways right. Turn not to the 
right, nor the left; but turn away thy foot from an evil way ; 
for God knoweth the ways on the right, but those on the left 
are crooked. But he will make thy paths straight and conduct 
thy steps in peace. 

My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thine ear to my 
words, that thou mayst keep a good understanding. Now the 
sense of my lips giveth thee this injunction—-listen not to an 
abandoned woman; for honey droppeth from the lips of a har- 
lot, which for a while pleaseth thy palate; but in the end thou 
wilt find it bitterer than gall, and sharper than a two edged 
sword. For the feet of folly lead them, who indulge themselves 
with her, down with death to the mansion of the dead. Her 
steps indeed are not established, for she walketh not in the . 
ways of life. Her paths are slippery and not easily known. Now 
therefore, my son, hearken to me and slight not my words. Re- 
move thy way far from her, go not near the doors of her house; 


9 That thow mayst not give thy life to others, and thy substance 


Ch. VI. PROVERBS. 


10 tothe cruel: that strangers may not be filled with thy wealth, 
11 and thy labours go into the houses of strangers, and thou at 
last be grieved. When the flesh of thy body is consumed, then 
12 thou wilt say, ‘‘How have I hated instruction, and my heart 
13 despised reproof! I hearkened not to the voice of him who in- 
14 structed me and taught me; nor have I inclined mine ear. I 
have been almost in all evil, in the midst of the assembly and 
congregation.” . 
15 Drink water from thine own vessels, and from the wells of 
16 thine own fountain. Let not the waters from thy fountain over- 
17 flowfor thee; but let thy waters run in thineownstreets. Letthem 
18 be for thyself only, and let no stranger partake with thee. Let thy 
fountain of water be appropriate to thyself; and rejoice with 
19 the wife of thy youth. Let thy loving hind and graceful fawn 
converse with thee; and let her be accounted peculiarly thine, 
and be with thee on all oc¢asions. For ravished with her love 
20 thou wilt become a numerous family. Be not devoted to a 
strange woman, nor embraced in the arms of one not thine own. 
21 For the ways ofa husband are before the eyes of God, and he 
22 examineth narrowly all his paths. Iniquities hunt a man; but 
23 every one is caught by the cords of his own sins. Such a one 
dieth with the uninstructed, but from his plentiful means of liv- 
ing he was cast out, and perished by reason of folly. 
Vi. My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou wilt 
' 2 deliver up thy hand to an enemy. Fora man’s own lips are a 
powerful snare, and he is caught by the words of his own mouth. 
3 Do, my-son, what I enjoin thee, and save thyself; for thou art 
come into the hands of bad men on thy friend’s account. Be 
not remiss, but importune thy friend for whom thou art surety. 
4 Give no sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids, that 
thou mayst be saved like a roe froma toil, and like a bird from 
a snare. 
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; and having seen its-ways 
7 follow the example and be wiser than it. For having no culti- 
8 vated field, no driver, nor master, it provideth its food in sum- 
mer, and layeth up a plentiful supply in harvest. Or go to the 
bee and learn what a worker she is: and how seriously she per- 
formeth her work, to the labours of which both kings and sub- 
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agreeable and honourable. And though her strength be small, 
having honoured wisdom she is diligently employed. How long 
wilt thou sleep, O sluggard, and when wilt thou rouse from 
sleep? Thou art sleeping a little—but resting ἃ little—but tak- 
ing a short nap—but folding thy hands a little while on thy 
breast! But is not poverty coming upon thee like an unwel- 
come traveller? And want like a speedy courier? Whereas if 
thou be diligent; thy harvest will come like a fountain, and want 
like a bad courier will run away. 

A man void of understanding, and a transgressor, walketh 
in ways which are not good. But he winketh with his eye and 
maketh a sign with his foot ; and teacheth, by pointing his 
fingers ; his depraved heart contriveth mischief. Such a one is 
continually raising tumults ina city. For this cause his de- 
struction cometh suddenly—wounds and incurable bruises. 
Because he delighteth in all those things which God hateth : 
therefore he is destroyed for the depravity of his soul. His eye 
is that of a scorner; his tongue is false; his hands are employ- 
ed in shedding innocent blood—his heart contriveth wicked 
purposes, and his feet are swift to do evil: as a false witness 
he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren. 

My son, keep the laws of thy father, and reject not the max- 
ims of thy mother. Bind them continually on thy mind: and 
tie them asa chain around thy neck. When thou walkest, take 
this along and let it be with thee: and when thou sleepest, let 
it guard thee ; that when thou awakest, it may talk with thee. 
For the command of a law isa lamp and light ; and reproof and 
instruction is the way of life, to keep thee from a married wo- 
man, and from the flattering tongue of a strange woman. Let 


nota lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine 


eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids. For the price of a harlot is 
scarce that of a single loaf; but an adulteress hunteth for the 
precious lives of men. Can any one put fire inhis bosom and 
not burn his clothes? Or can one walk on coals of fire and not 
burn his feet ὃ So he who goeth in, to a married woman, can- 
not escape punishment—no, nor any one who toucheth her. 
It exciteth no wonder, if one be caught stealing ; for a hungry 
man stealeth to satisfy his soul ; but if he be caught, he is to 
pay seven fold ; and by giving all that he hath, he will deliver 


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himself. But he, who through want of understanding, commit- 
teth adultery, provideth destruction for his soul. He suffereth. 
pangs and dishonour; and his reproach can never be wiped 
away. For the rage of her husband being full of jealousy, will 
not spare in the day of vengeance ; nor will he abate his enmi- 
ty for any ransom ; nor be appeased by many gifts. 


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My son, honor the Lord and thou shall be strong; but be- 
sides him, fear no other. Keep my commandments, that thou 
mayst live; and my words as the apple of thine eye. Bind them 
about thy fingers, and write therh on the table of thy heart. 
Implore Wisdom to be thy sister, and make Understanding 
thine acquaintance: that she may keep thee from a strange and 
wicked woman, in case she, with alluring words should attack 
thee. For through a lattice she looketh out of her house into 
the streets; and if among the simple youths she chanceth to 
see a young man, void of understanding, walking near a corner 
in the passages to her house, and talking in the twilight, when 
the evening is still and duskish: —then this woman, who mak- 
eth the hearts of young men flutter, meeteth him, in the attire 
of a harlot. Indeed she is ever on the wing and insatiable, and 
her feet abide not at home. For sometimes she roveth abroad : 
and sometimes lieth in wait in the streets, at every corner. 
Ha! she hath caught him and kissed him, and with an unblush- 
ing countenance, said to him : 

“1 have a peace offering ; to-day 1 am paying my vows: 
for this reason I came out to meet thee: earnestly longing to 
see thee. I have found thee. With cords I have stretched my 
bed, and decked it with tapestry from Egypt. I have perfum- 
ed my bed with saffron, and my house with cinnamon : come, 
and let us take our fill of love till the morning :—come and let 
us solace ourselves with love. For my husband is not at home, 
he is gone along journey ; he took in his hand a roll of silver, 
and will return to his house after many days.” 

So with much fawning discourse she led him astray ; and 
with the flattery of her lips inveigled him. And he is gone 
after her, attracted by her; as an ox is led to slaughter, or as 
a dog to be chained: or like a deer pierced through the liver 


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23 with adart. And he hasteth like a bird to a snare; not know- 
ing that he is running the risk of his life. 
24. ᾿ Now therefore my son hearken to me ; and attend to the 
25 words of my mouth. Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways: 
26 for she hath wounded and brought down many ; and innumera- 
28 ble are they whom she hath slain. Her house is the highway 
VIII. το Hades, leading down to the chambers of death. As for 
thee thou art to proclaim wisdom; that understanding may 
2 attend thee. For she is on the lofty summits; and hath taken 
3 her stand in the middle of highways. For at the gates of the 
mighty she hath taken a seat, and at the entrance thereof chant- 
eth her song. 
4 “Τὸ you, O men, I eal, and utter my voice to the sons 
5 of men. Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who 
6 are uninstructed give attention. Hearken to me, for I will speak. 
solemn things; and with my lips disclose things which are 
7 right. For my mouth shall speak truth ; lying lips are indeed 
8 abominable in my sight. All the words of my mouth are with 
righteousness ; they have nothing crooked—nothing deceitful 
9 inthem. They are all plain to men of understanding: and 
10 right to them who find knowledge. Receive instruction in 
preference to silver, and knowledge rather than fine gold.— 
11 For wisdom is better than precious stones: and no costly 
12 thing is equal to it in value. I wisdom have inhabited counsel 
and knowledge; and I have made an appeal to understand- 
13 ing. The fear of the Lord. hateth injustice and insolence and 
haughtiness and the ways of the wicked : and I have hated the 
14 crooked ways of bad men. To me belong counsel and safety. 
15 Prudence is mine—mine 15 fortitude. By me kings reign and 
16 princes decree justice. By me potentates are exalted ; and by 
17 me sovereigns rule the earth. Them who love me, I love : 
18 and they who seek me shall find me. With me are riches and 
19 glory; even great possessions and righteousness. My fruit 
is better than gold and precious stones: and my productions 
20 are better than choice silver. I walk in the ways of righteous- 
21 ness; and am conversant in the paths of judgment: that I 
may distribute wealth to them who love me; and fill their 
treasuries with good things. 


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Having told you things which happen daily ; I will now 
remember to reckon up things of old. The Lord created me, 
the beginning of his ways for his works. Before this age he 
founded me; in the beginning ; before he made the earth and 
before he made the deeps : before the fountains of water issued 
forth—before the mountains were established; and before all 
the hills, he bringeth me forth. The Lord made fields and unin- 
habited wilds; and the habitable heights of the earth. When he 
furnished the heaven, I was with him; and when he set apart his 
own throne on the winds: and when he strengthened the clouds 
above: and when he secured the fountains of the earth below— 
And when he made the foundations of the earth strong: I was 
harmonizing with him. I was the one in whom he delighted ; 
and I was daily gladdened by his presence on all occasions— 
whenhe finished the world and was pleased therewith; and when 
he was pleased with the sons of men. Now therefore, my son 
hearken to me: happy is the man who will hearken to me: 
and the man who will keep my ways; watching daily at my 
gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For my ways are the 
ways of life ; and volition is obtained from the Lord. But they 
who sin against me act wickedly against their own souls; and 
they who hate me love death.” 

Wisdom hath built herself a house, and fixed underneath 
it seven pillars. She hath slain her victims. She hath mixed 
her wine for the cup and furnished her table. She hath sent 
out her servants, and with a loud proclamation hath given an 
invitation to her entertainment, saying, 

‘“ Whosoever is simple, let him come to me.” ri to them 
who want understanding she saith, ‘‘ Come, eat of my bread. 
and drink the wine which I have mixed for you. Forsake folly, 
that you may reign forever: and seek prudence and build ap 
understanding with knowledge.”? He who instructeth the wick- 
ed shall receive for himself dishonour; and he who reproveth 
the ungodly will blemish himself. Rebuke not the wicked, 
lest they hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee. 
Give a wise man a hint and he will be wiser—an intimation to 
a righteous man and he will proceed to take it. The fear of the 
Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and knowledge is the coun- 
scl of the holy. For to know the law is a characteristick of a 


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good understanding; for by this means thou shalt live long, and 
years of life will be added to thee. 

My son, if thou art wise for thyself, thou wilt be wise also 
for thy neighbours. But if thou become wicked, thou alone 
shalt draw up evils. He who leaneth upon lies, feedeth on the 
wind, and he shall pursue flying birds; for he hath left the walks 
of his own vineyard, and wandered out of the paths of his own 
field, and traverseth a desert without water, and a land destined 
to thirst; and with his hands gathereth sterility. A woman who 
is foolish and bold needeth a curb; she hath no sense of shame. 
She sat at the doors of her house—on a seat open to view in 
the streets; calling to passengers who were going right on their 
ways, ‘‘ Let him who is the simplest of you turn aside to me ; 
and them who want prudence I exhort saying, Taste sweetly 
bread in secret and water sweeter for being stolen. He indeed 
did not know that with her the earth born perish—that he is 
lighting upon the perch of death. But fly thou away speedily; 
tarry not in that place, nor fix thine eyes upon her; for in this 
manner thou shouldst pass by strange water. Abstain from 
strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain; that thou 
mayst live long, and that years of life may be added to thee. 

A wise son maketh a father glad; but a foolish son is a 
grief to the mother. | 

Treasures cannot profit the wicked; but righteousness will 
deliver from death. 

The Lord will not kill with hunger a righteous soul; but 
he will overthrow the life of the wicked. 

Want humbleth a man; but the hands of the diligent en- 
rich. | 

A well instructed son will be wise, and shall have the sim- 
ple for a servant. 

A prudent son is safe from heat; but a transgressing son is 
blasted. m harvest. 

The blessing of the Lord is on the head of the barat 
but untimely grief shall stop the mouth of the wicked. 

The just are remembered with praises; but the name of the 
wicked is extinguished. 

The wise in heart will receive commandments; but a pre- 
varicating babbler shall be subverted. 


Ch. X. PROVERBS. 


9 He who walketh uprightly walketh securely; but he who 

perverteth his ways shall be known. 

10 He who winketh deceitfully with his eyes, collecteth sor- 
rows for men; but he who reproveth freely maketh peace. 

1} There is a fountain of life in the hand of the righteous; but 
destruction will stop the mouth of the wicked. 

12 Hatred stirreth up contention; but friendship covereth all 
them who are not contentious. 

13 He who from his lips uttereth wisdom, smiteth an impru- 
dent man with a rod. 

14 Wise men will lay up knowledge; but the mouth of the 
rash is near destruction. 

15 The wealth of the rich is a strong city; but penury is the 
destruction of the wicked. 

16 The works of the righteous produce life; but the hands 

of the wicked produce sins. 

17 Instruction keepeth the just ways of life; but unexamined 
instruction leadeth astray. 

18 Honest lips hide hatred; but they who utter reproaches 
are the greatest fools. 

19 In speaking much thou canst not avoid sin; but if thou art 
sparing of thy lips, thou wilt be wise. 

20 The tongue of the righteous is tried silver; but the heart of 
the wicked will not stand the test. 

CMe | The lips of the righteous are skilled in things lofty; but 

those devoid of understanding die of want. 

. 22 The blessing of the Lord is on the head of the righteous; it 
maketh rich, and to it no sorrow of heart shall be joined. 

23 A fool doth mischief in sport; but for man wisdom bring- 
eth forth prudence. 

24 5ΞΡᾳΑ wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the 
desire of the righteous is acceptable. 

25  Inapassing tempest a wicked man vanisheth; but the righ- 
teous turn aside and are safe forever. 

26 As vinegar is hurtful to the teeth; and smoke to the eyes; 
so is transgression to them who commit it. 

27. ~—«“‘ The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the years of the 
wicked shall be shortened. 


Ch. XI. PROVERBS. 


28 ἴον maketha long abode with the righteous; but the hope of 
the wicked shall perish. 
29 The fear of the Lord is the holy man’s bulwark; but de- 
struction is for the workers of iniquity. 
30 The righteous shall never transfer; but the wicked shall 
not inhabit the land. 
31 The mouth of the righteous distilleth wisdom; but the 
tongue of the wicked shall be destroyed. 
$2 The lips of righteous men distil graces; but the mouth of 
the wicked is perverse. 
ΧΕ A deceitful balance is an abomination to the Lord: but 
a just weight is his delight. 
2 Where pride entereth, there dishonour [entereth ] also. 
But the mouth of the lowly speaketh wisdom. 
3 A righteous man dying left sorrow behind him: but the 
destruction of the wicked cometh suddenly and giveth joy. 
5 Righteousness maketh spotless ways straight : but wicked- 
ness falleth by iniquity. 
6 The righteousness of upright men delivereth them: but 
transgressors are caught by their destruction. 
7 When a righteous man dieth, bape! is not lost: but the 
boast of the wicked perisheth. 


8 A righteous man escapeth a snare: and in his stead the 
wicked is delivered up. 
9 In the mouth of the wicked is a snare for citizens: but 


the knowledge of the righteous conduceth to prosperity. 
11 By the good acts of the just a city flourished: but by the 
mouth of the wicked it was overthrown. 
12 A man void of wisdom derideth fellow citizens: but a pru- 
dent man enjoyeth quiet. 


13 A double tongued man revealeth cabinet counsels: but 
one of a faithful spirit concealeth matters. 

14 They, who have no government, fall like leaves: but in 
much counsel there is safety. 

15 A wicked man doth hurt, when he associateth with the 
just : but he hateth the sound of safety. 

16 A virtuous woman raiseth honour for her husband: but a 


woman who hateth righteousness is a throne of disgrace. 
The slothful though rich, become indigent : but the dili- 
gent are supported with wealth. 


Ch. ΧΙ]. PROVERBS. 


17 A merciful man doth good to his own soul: but the mer- 
ciless destroyeth his own body. | 

18 A wicked man doth works of injustice : but the seed of the 
righteous is a reward of truth. 


19 A righteous son is born to live; but the pursuit of the 
wicked tendeth to death. 
20 Crooked ways are an abomination to the Lord : but all who 


are blameless in their ways are his delight. 

21 He who wickedly joineth hand to hand shall not go unpun- 
ished : but he who soweth righteousness shall receive a just 
reward. 

22 As a jewel in the snout of a swine; so is beauty in a wo- 
man void of discretion. 

23 The desire of the righteous is altogether good; but the 
hope of the wicked shall perish. 

24 There are some who scattering their substance make it 
more : and some who gather and make it less. 

25 A soul is blessed which is altogether sincere: but a pas- 
sionate man is not respected. 

26 May he who. withholdeth corn leave it to the nations ! But 
blessing be on the head of him who distributeth! 

27 The contriver of good things seeketh favour: but him, 
who seeketh mischief, mischief shall overtake. 

28 He who trusteth in riches shall fall; but he who helpeth 
the righteous shall flourish. 

29 He who hath no cover for his own house shall inherit the 
wind: and a fool shall be a servant to the prudent. 

30 From the fruit of righteousness springeth up the tree of 
life : but the lives of transgressors are prematurely destroyed. 

31 If the righteous man scarcely ἐϑρηβοια where shall the 
ungodly and sinner appear? ee 

XII. He who loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he 
who hateth reproofs is a fool. 

2 He who hath found favour with the Lord groweth better ; 
but the transgressor shall be put to silence. ἰ 

a A man cannot prosper by wickedness: but the roots of the 
righteous shall not be moved. 

A A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but a mis- 
chievous woman, like a worm in wood, ruineth her husband. 


Ch.. XII. PROVERBS. 


5 The thoughts of the righteous are judgments: but the 
wicked manage deceits. 

6 The words of the wicked are deceitful : but the mouth of 
the upright shall deliver them. 

7 When the wicked is overthrown, he vanisheth : but the 
houses of the righteous shall remain. 

8 The mouth of the wise is praised by man : but the stupid 
hearted is despised. 

9 Better is the man, who unhonoured serveth himself: than 
he who honoureth himself and wanteth bread. 

10 A righteous man regardeth the lives of his beasts : but the 
mercies of the wicked are cruel. 

11 He who tilleth his own ground shall be satisfied with bread: 
but they who pursue vanities are void of understanding. 

He who taketh pleasure in taverns shall leave Se; in 
his own fortresses. 

12 The desires of the wicked are evil: but the roots of the 
righteous are in secure places. 

13 By the transgression of his lips a sinner falleth into snares : 
but out of them a righteous man maketh his escape. 

He whose looks are mild will gain compassion : but he who 
contendeth in the gates will afflict souls. 

14 From the fruits of his mouth the soul of man shall be satis- 
fied with good things ; and the recompence of his lips shall be 
given him. 

15 The ways of fools are right in their own eyes: but a wise 
man hearkeneth to advice. 

16 A fool presently sheweth his wrath: but a prudent man 
concealeth his dishonour. 

17 A righteous man declareth the truth as it appeareth to him: 
but a false witness is deceitful. 


18 They who wound with their speeches are swords: but the 
tongues of the wise are healing. 
19 True lips establish testimony : but a hasty witness hath an 
unrighteous tongue. 
20 Bocas is in the heart of him, who contriveth evils: but 
the counsellors of peace shall have joy. 
21 Nothing unjust can please a righteous man : but the wick- 


ed can fill themselves with mischief. 


Ch. XIII. PROVERBS. As 


22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but he who 
dealeth faithfully is acceptable to him. 

23 A prudent man is a throne of knowledge : but the heart of 
fools will encounter curses. 

24 The hand of the valiant can easily conquer: but the de- 
ceitful shall be for a prey. 

25 Awful news trouble the heart of a righteous man : but good 
news make him glad. 

26 A righteous judge will be a friend to himself: but evils 
shall pursue sinners: and the way of the wicked shall deceive 
them. 

27 A deceitful man shall not enjoy what he hath caught; but 
as for a pure man, his acquisition is precious. 

28 In the ways of righteousness there is life ; but the ways of 
the revengeful lead to death. 

XIII. A wise son is obedient to his father; but a disobedient 
son is in the way to destruction. Ι 

2 A good man eateth of the fruits of righteousness : but the 
souls of transgressors shall perish untimely. 

3 He who guardeth his mouth preserveth his life; but he who 
is rash with his mouth, shall bring on himself terror. 

4 Every sluggard 1 is employed 1 in wishing : but the hands of 
the diligent, in procuring. 

5 A righteous man hateth a false word; but the wicked is 
shamed and shall not have confidence. 


7 Some pretend to be rich, having nothing; and some feign 
themselves poor, in great wealth. 
8 The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth ; but a poor man 


is not subject to threats. 
9 The righteous have light continually ; but the light of the 


wicked is extinguished. 
Deceitful souls are led astray by sins; but the righteous 
exercise pity and compassion. 


10 A wicked man doth mischief with haughtiness ; but wise 
men are their own judges. 
11 Wealth acquired by injustice, diminisheth; but he who 


gathereth for himself with piety, shall be satisfied. A righteous 
man sheweth mercy and lendeth. 
12 _ Better is he who heartily beginneth to help, than he who 


Ch. XIV. PROVERBS. 


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promiseth and giveth expectation ; for good desire is a tree of 
life. 
‘He who despiseth business shall be despised by it ; but he 
who feareth a commandment is safe. 
To a deceitful son nothing can be good : but the actions of a 
wise servant are prosperous, and his way will be prospered. 
The law of the wise is a fountain of life; but the fool shall 
die by a snare. 
A good understanding giveth favour; and to know the 
law is a proof of good understanding ; but the ways of impos- 


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Every prudent man acteth with knowledge; but the fool 
hath laid open his wickedness. 

A daring king will involve himself in evils; but a wise am- 
bassador will deliver him. 

Instruction removeth poverty and disgrace; and he who re- 
gardeth reproofs shall be honoured. 

The desires of the pious sweeten life : but the works of the 
wicked are far from knowledge. 

By walking with the wise thou wilt be wise; but he who 
walketh with fools will be known. 

Evils shall pursue sinners, but good will overtake the 

righteous. 

A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children; but 
the wealth of the wicked is treasured up for the righteous. 

The righteous shall spend many years in wealth; but the un- 
righteous shall perish in a short time. 

He who spareth the rod hateth’his Son ; but he who loveth 
him correcteth diligently. 

- Arighteous man eateth and satisfieth his soul; but the souls 
of the wicked are insatiate. 


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He who walketh uprightly, feareth the Lord; but he who 
is perverse in his ways, shall be dishonoured. 

From the mouth of fools there is a rod of pride; but the lips 
of the wise preserve them. 

Where there are no cattle the stalls are clean; but where 
there is much provender, the ox’s strength is manifest. 
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SIV. PROVERBS. 


A faithful witness doth not lie; buta false witness kindleth 
lies. 

‘Thou mayst seek wisdom among the wicked, but shalt not 
find it ; but knowledge is easily found among the prudent. 

All things are contrary to a foolish man: but wise ape are 
the arms of knowledge. 

The wisdom of the prudent will give them a knowledge of 
their ways; but the folly of fools is in error. 

The houses of transgressors need purifying; but the 


houses of the righteous are acceptable. 


The heart of a man who hath sensibility—the soul of him 
who hath a feeling for pain, when he is made glad, mingleth not 
with pride. 

The houses of the wicked shall vanish; but the tents of the 
upright shall stand. 

There is a way which seemeth right to man; but the end 
of it is at the bottom of Hades. 

Grief mixeth not with pleasures; but extreme joy tendeth 
to sorrow. 

A bold hearted man will be satisfied with his own ἜΡΩΣ ; 
but a good man, with his intentions. 

A man without guile, believeth every thing: but a prudent 
man cometh for a change of mind. 

A wise man, when terrified, declineth from evil: but the 
fool, confident in himself, mixeth with transgressors. 

A passionate man acteth wathout counsel; but a pru- 


dent man beareth many things. 


Fools partake of wickedness; but the prudent will lay 
hold of knowledge. 

Let the bad fall before the good; and the wicked pti at at 
the gates of the righteous! 

Friends will hate poor friends ; but the friends of the rich 
are many. 

He who despiseth the poor, sinneth : but he who compas- 
sionateth the poor is blessed. 

They who are led astray devise mischief; but the good de- 
vise mercy and truth. 

The contrivers of mischief know neither mercy nor truth; 
but acts of kindnessand truthare with them, who contrive good, 


Ε Cha’ XV. PROVERBS. 


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With all who are careful there is abundance; but he who 
is delicate and taketh no trouble shall be in want. 

A prudent man is a crown to the wise; but the conversa- 
tion of fools is evil. 

A true witness will deliver a soul from evils; but a deceit- 
ful witness kindleth lies. 

In the fear of the Lord a man hath hope of strength;. 

and to his children he ‘leaveth a support. 

The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; an 
it causeth to decline from the snare of death. | 

In the multitude of a nation is the glory of a king ; but in 
the failure of a people is the destruction of a prince. 

A man slow to wrath, is of great understanding; but a pas- 
sionate man is egregiously foolish. 

A meek minded man is a physician of the heart; but a 
heart of sensibility is a corroder of the bones. 

He who oppresseth the poor, provoketh his maker ; but he 
who honoureth him, compassionateth the distressed. 

A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness ; 
but in his sanctity the righteous is secure. 

In the good heart of a man there is wisdom; but in the 
heart of fools it is not discernable. 

Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sins diminish tribes. 

A wise minister is acceptable to a king: but by his. own 
good conduct he removeth disgrace. 


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turneth away wrath; but a harsh word stirreth up anger. 


‘The tongue of the wise knoweth good things; but the mouth 
of fools poureth out evils. 

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, they behold both 
the evil and the good. 

A healing tongue is a tree of life; and he who keepeth it 
shall be filled with the spirit. 

A fool despiseth the instruction of a father : but he who 
keepeth commands is more prudent. 

Where righteousness aboundeth there is much power: but 
the wicked being utterly rooted out of the land, shall perish. 

In the houses of the righteous there is much power ; but 
the fruits of the wicked shall perish. 


Ch. XV. PROVERBS. | 


7 The lips of the wise are devoted to knowledge; but the 
hearts of fools are not safe. 
8 The sacrifices of the wicked are an dbomiiaatani to the 
Lord; but the prayers of the upright are acceptable to him. 
9 - The ways of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord ; 
but he loveth them who follow righteousness. 
10 The correction of the innocent is remarked by them who 
pass by; but they who hate reproofs die dishonourably. 
11 The mansion of the dead, and destruction, are open to the 
view of the Lord; how much more then the hearts of men! 
12 An uninstructed man will not love them who on him, 
nor will he associate with the wise. 
13 When the heart is glad the countenance is cheerful; but 
when in sorrow, it is sad. 
14 An upright heart seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of 
the uninstructed will taste evils. 
15. ‘Theeyes of the wicked are continually looking for evils; but 
the good are continually at rest. 
16 Better is a small portion with the fear of the Lord, than 
great treasures without that fear. 
17 Better is a dinner on herbs, with friendship and favour, than 
a feast on young bulls, with enmity. 
18 A wrathful man prepareth battles ; but he who is slow to 
anger appeaseth the rising quarrel. 
A man slow to anger will extinguish law suits; but the 
wicked rather promote them. 
19 The ways of the slothful are strewed with thorns; but those 
of the diligent are well beaten. 
20 A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son mock- 
eth his mother. 
21 — ‘The paths of the foolish are destitute of understanding; but 
a prudent man walketh uprightly. - 
22 They who do not honour councils, substitute thoughts: but 
23 by the understanding of counsellors, counsel will ebsites. A 
wicked man will not hearken to it, nor can he say any thing 
in season, or for the publick good. 
24 The determinations of the wise are ways of life, that he 
may turn from the mansion of the dead and be ‘saved. 


Ch. XVI. PROVERBS. 


5 The Lord destroyeth the houses of the haughty : but the 
border of the widow he hath established. 
26 An evil thought is an abomination to the Lord: but the 
speeches of the chaste are grave. 
yr He who receiveth bribes destroyeth himself: but he Rin 
hateth the receiving of bribes is safe. 
By acts of kindness and faithfulness sins are purged away: 
and by the fear of the Lord every one will decline from evil. 
28 The hearts of the righteous study faithfulness: but the 
mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. 
The ways of the righteous are acceptable to the Lord: 
and by them enemies are made friends. 
29 God is far removed from the wicked: but he hearkeneth to 
the prayers of the righteous. 
Better is a small portion with righteousness; than much 
produce with injusiice. 
Let the heart of man devise righteous things, that his 
steps may be directed by God. 
30 The eye which beholdeth good things rejoiceth the heart : 
91 And a good reputation maketh the bones fat. 


32 He who rejecteth instruction hateth himself: but he who 
regardeth reproofs loveth his soul. 
30 The fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom: and the 


beginning of glory will be answerable thereto. 
XVI. All the works of the humble are manifest in the sight 
of God; but the wicked shall perish 1 in an evil day. 

4 Every lofty minded man is impure in the sight of God: 
and he who hath joined hand to hand unjustly shall not go 
unpunished. 

The beginning of a good way is to do things just and ac- 
ceptable in the suit of God, rather than to offer sacrifices. 

He who seeketh the Lord shall find knowledge with right- 
eousness. And they who seek him early shall find peace. 

All the works of the Lord are with righteousness: but the 
wicked is kept for an evil day. 

10 Divine sentence is in the mouth of a king: therefore his 

mouth should not err in judgment. 
11 —_ Justice is that which turneth the scales with the Lord. And 
his works are of just weight. 


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Ch. XVI. PROVERBS. 


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An evil doer is an abomination to a king: for the throne 
of government is established by righteousness. 

Righteous lips are acceptable to a king; and he loveth right 
words. 

The wrath of a king is a messenger of death: but a wise 
man can pacify it. 

The son of a king is in the light of life: and they who 
are acceptable to him are as an evening cloud. 

The productions of wisdom are better than gold: and the 
productions of prudence are better than silver. 

The paths of life turn aside from evils: and the ways of right- 

eousness are length of life. 

He who receiveth instruction shall enjoy good: and he who 
regardeth reproofs shall be wise. 

He who watcheth his own ways preserveth his soul : and 
he who loveth his life will be sparing of his mouth. 

Pride goeth before destruction : and a haughty spirit be- 
fore a fall. 

A man of a gentle spirit with humility is better than he who 


divideth spoils with scorners. 

A man intelligent in business is an inventer of good things : 
but most happy is he whose trust 1s in God. 

The wise and prudent are called crafty; and they who are 
sweet in discourse will be more listened to. 

Understanding is a fountain of life to them who possess it : 
but the instruction of fools is evil. 

The heart of a wise man will consider the words of his 
mouth : and on his lips he will carry knowledge. 

Good words are a honey comb : and the sweetness thereof 
is health to the soul. 

There are ways which seem right toa man: but the lattes 
ends of them look to the bottom of Hades. 

A man by labour laboureth for himself; and wardeth off 
his own destruction. 

He who is utterly perverse carrieth destruction in his mouth. 
A man void of understanding diggeth up evils for himself; 
and treasureth up fire with his lips. ᾿ 

A froward man spreadeth mischief. He will light up a lamp 
of deceit for evils; and he separateth them who were friends. 


Ch. XVII. PROVERBS. 


Roe) The man who is atransgressor enticeth friends; and lead- 


30 eth them in ways which are not good. But he who fixeth his 
eyes and deviseth froward things ; and with his mouth en- 
forceth all his evil purposes; isa very furnace of wickedness. 

51 Old age is a crown of glory, when found in the ways οἵ. 
righteousness. 

3532 A man who is slow to wrath is better than the mighty; and 
he who subdueth anger is better than he who taketh a city. 

33 All things come upon the wicked into their bosoms : but 
from the Lord all things which are just. 

XVII. Better is a morsel with pleasure in peace; than a house 
full of goods and ill gotten dainties, with contention. 

- 2 A wise servant will rule over foolish masters; and di- 
vide portions among brothers. 

3 As silver and gold are tried in a furnace ; so are chosen 
hearts, by the Lord. : 

4 A wicked man hearkeneth to the tongue of transgressors: 
but a righteous man payeth no attention to lying lips. 

5 He who derideth a man in distress provoketh his maker ; 
and he who rejoiceth at another’s ruin shall not go unpunish- 
ed: but he who sheweth compassion shall find mercy. 

6 Children’s children are the crown of old men: and the 
boast of children, is their fathers. 


Every ornament of wealth belongeth to the faithful; but to 
the unfaithful, not a farthing. 


7 Faithful lips will not harmonize with a fool; nor lying 
lips with a righteous man. 

8 Instruction is a precious reward to them who use it: and 
whithersoever it turneth it will prosper. 

9 He who hideth transgressions seeketh friendship : but 
he who hateth to conceal, setteth friends and relations at va- 
riance. 


10 A threat affecteth the heart of the prudent: but a fool, 
though scourged, is not made sensible. 

11 Every wicked man stirreth up contention: but the Lord 
will send him a cruel messenger. 

2 Trouble may befal a prudent man : but the foolish will de. 
vise mischief. . 


13 Whosoever returneth evil for good; from his house eyils 
shall not depart. 


Ch. XVIII. PROVERBS. 


14 A righteous government giveth force to words: but sedi- 
tion and quarrelling are the forerunners of want. 

15 He who acquitteth the wicked and condemneth the just, is 
unclean and abominable in the sight of God. 

16 Why should a fool have wealth ? For the stupid cannot pur- 
chase wisdom. 

He who buildeth his house high seeketh destruction : and 
he who is backward to learn shall fall into evils. , 

17 For every occasion have a friend ; but in distress let bro- 
thers be assistant: for they are born for this purpose. 

18 A man void of understanding clappeth his hands and ap- 
plaudeth himself on becoming surety for his friends. 

19 He who is fond of sinning delighteth in quarrels: but he 

20 who is stubborn doth not meet with good. 

A man of a changeable tongue will fall into evils: but the 
heart of a fool is sorrow to him who hath it. 

21 A father hath no joy in an unteachable son: but a prudent 
son is the joy of his mother. 

22 ΘΞ5ΞΚ(Α cheerful heart promoteth health; but the bones of a 
heart-wounded man are dried up. 

93 When one unrighteously receiveth gifts in his bosom ; his 
ways will not be straight. But a wicked man perverteth the 
ways of justice. 

24 The countenance of a wise man is intelligent; but the fool’s 
eyes are on the ends of the earth. 

25 A foolish son is a vexation toa father; and sorrow to her 
who bore him. 

26 To fine a righteous man is not good: nor is it consistent 
with piety to plot against righteous rulers. 

27 He who forbeareth to utter a harsh word is prudent : and 

he who is slow to anger is a man of understanding. | 

28 Wisdom will be imputed to a fool, who mene after wis- 
dom: and he who imposeth silence on himself will be esteem- 
ed wise. 

XVIII. He who desireth to part with friends seeketh ex- 
cuses ; but he will always be liable to reproach.— 

2 He who is void of understanding hath no use for wisdom ; 
for he is rather led by folly. 


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When a wicked man cometh to a depth of evils he sheweth 

contempt; but ignominy and reproach come upon him. 
_ A speech in a man’s heart is deep water; buta stream is- 

sueth forth and a flowing spring. 

To respect the person of a wicked man is not good; nor is 
it consistent with piety to pervert justice in judgment. 

Lhe lips of a fool lead him into trouble; and his mouth 
when bold provoketh death. 

The mouth of a fool is his destruction, and his lips are a 
snare for his soul. 

Fear depresseth the slothful; and the souls of the effeminate 
shall sufier want. 

He who doth not use his endeavours to cure himself is bro- 
ther to him who destroyeth himself. 

The name of the Lord is of majestic power; and the righte- 
ous having recourse to it shall be exalted. 

Arich man’s wealth is a strong city, and the glory of it 
casteth a great shadow. 

Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, and before 
honour it is humble. 

He who answereth a matter before he heareth it, exposeth 
his folly and incurreth contempt. 

A wise servant appeaseth a man’s anger; but a mean spi- 
rited man who can bear ? 

The heart of a prudent man getteth knowledge; and the 
ears of the wise seek understanding. 

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and procureth him a 
seat among the mighty. 

A just man is his own accuser in his first speech; but when 
he is accused his adversary is refuted. 

The silent lot putteth an end to contention, and determineth 
among the mighty. 

A brother assisted by a brother is like a fortified and lofty 
city, and is strong as a well founded palace. 

With the fruits of his mouth a man filleth his belly, and 
with the fruits of his lips he shall be satisfied. 

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they who 
have the command of it shall eat the fruits thereof, 

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He who hath found a good wife hath found favour, .and 
hath received joy from God. | 

He who putteth away a good wife, putteth away good things; 
but he who retaineth an adulteress is foolish and wicked. 


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his heart he blameth God. 
Wealth maketh many friends; but a poor man is for- 
saken by the only friend he hath. 
A false witness shall not go unpunished; and he whoaccus- 
eth unjustly shall not escape. 
Many court the favour of kings; but every one who is 
wicked is a disgrace to a man in power. 
Every one who hateth a brother in distress shall be far 
from friendship. 
A good understanding will approach them who know it, 
and a prudent man will find it. 
He who doth much evil perfecteth wickedness; and he who 
useth irritating words shall not be safe. 
He who procureth wisdom loveth himself; and he who 
keepeth it shall find good things. 
Let not a false witness go unpunished; and let him who 
kindleth mischief perish by it. 
It is not seemly for a fool to enjoy delicacies; nor for a ser- 
vant to begin to domineer with haughtiness. 
A merciful man is slow to wrath; and his boast is over 
transgressors. ; 
The threat of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but his 
favour is like dew on the grass. 
A foolish son is a shame to a father. 
Vows for the hire of a harlot are not pure. 
Fathers bequeath houses and wealth to children; but the 
Lord accommodateth a wife to a husband. 
Fear restraineth the effeminate; but the soul of the sloth- 
ful shall suffer want. 
He who keepeth a command. preserveth his soul; but he 
who despiseth his own ways shall perish. 
_ He who is kind to the poor lendeth to God; and accord- 
ing to his gift he will repay him. | 


Ch. XX. PROVERBS. 


18 Chasten thy son, for thus he will be hopeful; but be not in 
thy soul transported to haughtiness. 

19 Let ἃ malicious man be fined high; but ifhe take away life, 
let him forfeit his own. 


20 Hear my son, the instruction of thy father that thou mayst 
be wise in thy latter days. 

a3 There are many thoughts in a man’s heart : but the coun- 
sel of the Lord shall endure forever. 

22 Beneficence is a crop for a man: and a poor just man is 
better than a rich liar. 

23 The fear of the Lord conduceth to a man’s life: but he 
who is fearless will lodge in places where knowledge doth not 
watch. 


24. He who hideth his hands in his bosom unjustly; should 
not bring them out for his mouth. 

25 When a criminal is scourged, a simpleton becometh more 
wary: but if thou rebukest'a wise man, he will call to mind 
knowledge. 

26 He who bringeth dishonour on a father and causeth his mo- 
ther to flee; shall be exposed to shame and shall be reproached. 

27 A son who ceaseth to keep the instruction of a father: will 
meditate on evil sayings. 

28 ~- He whois surety for a foolish son, shall rail at the statute; 
but the mouth of the wicked shall swallow decisions. 

29° Rods are prepared for the profligate : and punishments in 
like manner for fools. 

XX: Wine is’ intemperate, and drunkenness scornful. And 
with these every fool is entangled. . 

2 The threat of a king is like the rage of a lion; and he who 
provoketh him sinneth against his own life. 

3 It is an honour to a man to abstain from railing : but with 
such things every fool is entangled. 

4 Though ἃ sluggard is reproached he is not ashamed : and 
the same is the case with him who borroweth corn in harvest. 

5 Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water; but a man of 
understanding will draw it up. 

6 A man is a great thing: and ἃ merciful man a precious 
thing: but it is hard to find a faithful man. 

7 He who conducteth himself spotless in justice shall leave 

behind him his children happy. 


Ch. ΧΧΙ. PROVERBS. 


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When a righteous king sitteth on a throne, nothing that is 
evil can stand his eyes. 

Who can boast that he hath a clean heart? Or who can say 
with confidence that he is pure from sin? 

Whosoever curseth father or mother; let his lamp be ex- 
tinguished and his eye balls involved in darkness. 

A portion got at first with too much haste will not at the 
last be blessed. 

Do not say, 1 will take vengeance on an enemy ; but wait 
for the Lord that he may help thee. 

Diverse weights and diverse measures are impure in the 
sight of the Lord. Yes, both they and he who useth them. 

A youth when in company with the godly, will be restrain- 
ed in his devices and his way will be straight. 

The ear heareth and the eye seeth; and both are the work 
of the Lord. 

Love not contradiction that thou mayst not be destroyed : 
open thine eyes and be filled with bread. 

A diverse weight is an abomination to the Lord : anda de- 
ceitful balance is not good in his sight. 

The steps for a man are plainly set forth by the Lord : how 
then should a mortal consider his ways ! 

The hasty dedication of his property is a snare to a man: 
for after the vow a change of mind happeneth. 

A wise king is a winnower of the wicked; and he will 
bring a wheel over them. 
The spirit of man is a light of the Lord, who searcheth 

the inward recesses of the body. 

Beneficence and truth are a guard to a king: and they will 
encompass his throne with justice. 

Wisdom is an ornament to young men: and grey hairs are 
the glory of the old. 

Blood shot eyes and bruises light upon bad men: and there 
are wounds for the inner recesses of the body. 


ΧΧΙ. The heart of a king is in the hand of God; like a canal 


2 


of water, he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth. 


Every man appeareth righteous in his own eyes: but the 
Lord directeth hearts. 


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y SEF. PROVERBS. 


To do justice and to adhere to truth are more acceptable to 
God than the blood of victims, 

A high minded man is contentious and stubborn : but sin is 
the lamp of the wicked. 

He who getteth treasures bya lyingtongue, pursueth vanity 
to the snares of death. 

Destruction shall lodge with the wicked; because they re- 
fuse to do justice. 

To the perverse God sendeth crooked ways: for his works 
are pure and right. | 

It is better to dwell in a corner in the open air; than in 

apartments plaistered with injustice; and in a house which is not 
clean. 

The soul of the wicked will not be pitied by any man. 

When a profligate is punished the innocent become more 
cautious; and the intelligent wise man will gain knowledge. 

A just man discerneth the hearts of the wicked; and des- 
piseth the wicked for their wickedness. 

He who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear the distress- 
ed shall himself cry, and there shall be none to answer. 

A gift given secretly pacifieth resentments; but he who is 
sparing of gifts exciteth strong wrath. 

It is the joy of the righteous to execute judgment: but in 
the view of the wicked a holy man is unclean. 

A man who wandereth from the path of justice, shall go to 
rest among the congregation of giants. 

A needy man loveth pleasure. He wisheth to have wine and 


oil for his riches : and a transgressor wisheth to be acquitted as 


a righteous man. : 

It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrel- 
some, clamorous and passionate wife. 

A desirable treasure will rest in the mouth of the wise: but 
men who are foolish will swallow it. 

The way of justice and mercy will lead to life and glory. 

A wise man hath scaled strong cities and demolished forti- 
fications in which the wicked trusted. 

He who guardeth his mouth and tongue keepeth his soul 
from trouble. 


Ch. XXII. PROVERBS. 


2324 Hewhois bold, sclfwilled and boastful: is called doimos [a 
pest; | and he who harboureth mischief is called a transgressor. 

25 Wishing killeth the slothful; for his hands do not chuse to 
labour. 

26. Allthe day long a wicked man. indulgeth wicked desires; 
but the righteous unsparingly exerciseth pity and compassion. 


27 The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the 
Lord; because they offer them unrighteously. 
28 A false witness, shall perish; but aman who is a witness 


will speak guardedly. 
29 A. wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: butthe up- 
right willhimself consider his ways. 
30 There is no wisdem, there is no fortitude, no counsel in the 
wicked. 
31 Ahorse is provided forthe day of battle: but help cometh 
from the Lord. 
XXII. A good name is to be chosen in preference to great 
wealth; and good favour, in preference to gold and silver. 
2-«¢ The ahs and poor have met each eihets and the Lord hath 
made. them both. 3 
3 A prudent man seeing the wicked severely punished in- 
structeth himself: but the foolish passed heedlessly by and 
were punished. 


A The offspring of wisdom are the fear of the Lord and 
riches. and glory and life. 

5 Thorns and snares are in crooked paths: but he who 
watcheth his soul shall avoid them. 

7 The rich rule over the poor; though servants lend to their 
own masters. 

8 He who soweth iniquity shall reap evils; and compleat the 


punishment of his deeds. 
God: blesseth a cheerful giver; and will supply the defi- 
ciency of his works. 
9 He who compassionateth the poor shall be fed; for he gave 
οἵ his own bread to the poor. 
He who giveth gifts secureth victory and honour. He in- 
deed taketh away the soul of the receivers. 
10 E-xpel from council an overbearing man; and ‘contention 


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XXII. - PROVERBS. 


will go out with him : for if he sitteth in council he dishonour- 
eth all. 

The Lord loveth holy hearts; and all the unspotted are ac- 
ceptable to him. 

A king feedeth with his lips; but the eyes of the Lord dili- 
gently watch the sentiment: and a transgressing word setteth 
it at naught. 

A slothful man maketh excuse and saith, There is a lion 
in the highways and murderers in the streets. 

The mouth of a transgressor isa deep ditch; and he who is 
hated of the Lord shall fall into it. 

There are bad ways before a man and he loveth not to avoid 
them : but he ought to avoid a crooked and bad way. 

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: but a rod and in- 
struction will drive it from him. 

Some plunder the poor to increase their wealth and give to 
the rich to lessen it. 

Incline thine ear to the words of the wise; and hear my dis- 
course and apply thy heart; that thou mayst know that they are 
good. If thou indeed wilt lay them up in thy heart; they will 
give thee delight and be on thy lips. In order that thy hope may 
be upon the Lord; and that he may make known to thee thy 
way. Write thou them for thyself three times over; for counsel 
and knowledge, on the table of thy heart. For this purpose I 
teach thee sound doctrine and knowledge good to be listened 
to: that thou mayst answer them who propound to thee 
words of truth. 

Oppress not the needy because he is poor: nor treat with 

disrespect at the gates one who is weak. 7 

For the Lord will judge his cause; and thou shouldst pre- 
serve thy life safe and secure. 

Have no fellowship with a man addicted to wrath; nor lodge 
with a friend who is passionate : lest thou learn his ways and 
lay a snare for thine own life. 

Do not out of respect for a person become surety. For τ 
thou hast not wherewithal to pay, thy bed will be taken from 
under thee. 

Remove not ancient boundaries which thy fathers haye sct. 


Ch. XXIII. PROVERBS. 


28 A man clear in his perceptions and quick in the despatch 
of business should stand before kings and not wait on slothful 
men. 

XXIII. When thou sittest down to eat at the table of aruler; 
observe diligently what are set before thee: and put to thy 

| 2 hand, knowing that thou must provide the like. But if thou 
hast an appetite not easily satisfied; desire not his dainties; for 
they give false life. 

3 If thou art poor, enter not into competition with one who 

4 is rich: but be restrained by thine own prudence. If thou fix 
thy view toward him, he is out of sight: ‘for he is provided 
with wings as of an eagle; and directeth his course to the 
house of one who is before him. 

5 Eat not with an envious man, nor desire his meats: for he 

6 eateth and drinketh as one swallowing a hair. Neither invite 
him to thy house, nor eat thy morsel with him: for it will 
cause him to vomit and he will blame thy kind invitations. 

4 Make no addresses to a man void of understanding: lest 

8 he peradventure mock thy judicious discourse. Remove not 
ancient land marks, nor encroach upon the possession of the 

9 fatherless. For the Lord who is their redeemer is strong; and 
will plead their cause with thee. 

10 Apply thy heart to instruction; and prepare éhine ears for 
the words of knowledge. 

11 Refrain not from correcting a child: for if thou beat him 

12 with a rod, thou mayst prevent his death. For thou wilt beat 
him with a rod and deliver his soul from death. 

19 My son, if thy heart be wise, thou wilt gladden my heart. 

14 And thy lips, if they be right, will hold long conversation with 
mine. 

15 Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the sear of 
the Lord all the day long. 

18 If thou indeed keep these instructions: they will be a pro- 
geny to thee and thy hope shall not perish. 

19 Hear, my son and be wise and direct the thoughts of thy 
heart aright. 

20 Be not a wine bibber, nor devoted to clubs: and to the pur- 

21 chasing of flesh meat. For every one addicted to reyelling and 


Ch. XXIV. PROVERBS. 


stews shall come to beggary : and every one given to sleep 
shall be clothed with rags and tatters. 

-Hearken, my son, to the father who begot thee: and de- 
spise not thy mother because she is old. 

A righteous father nourisheth thee well; and his soul re- 
joiceth in a wise son. 

Let thy father and thy mother have joy in thee: and let her 
who bare thee rejoice. 

My son, give me thy heart; and let thine eyes observe 
my ways. 

Fora strange house is a hogshead full of holes: and a strange 
well is narrow. For that will quickly perish; and every trans- 
gressor shall be destroyed. 

Who hath woes? Who hath trouble? Who hath law suits? 
Who hath vexations and squabbles ? Who hath wounds with- 
out cause? Whose are the eyes suffused with blood ? Are 
they not theirs who tarry long at wine—who frequent the places 
where there are revels? 

Be not drunk with wine; but converse with righteous men : 
and converse in the publick walks. For if thou givest thine 
eyes to cups and goblets; thou wilt go about afterwards na. 
ked asa pestle: and be, at last, like one swoln by the bite of 
a serpent ; or as one stung by a basilisk. When thime eyes 
behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely. 
And thou wilt lie as in the midst of the sea: and like a pilot 
ina mighty storm. And thou wilt say, They have beaten me 
and I felt no pain; they insulted me and I was not sensible of it. 
When will it be day, that I may go and seek with whom I can 
have a meeting. 


XXIV. My son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with 


2 


3 


4 


5 


them: for their hearts study falsehood ; and their lips utter 
mischief. 

By wisdom a house is built; and by understanding it is 
established. 

By knowledge chambers are filled with all precious and 
pleasant riches. 

_ Better is a wise man than one who is strong: and the man 

who hath understanding, than he who hath a large cultivated 
field. 


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XXIV. PROVERBS. 


_ By government war is conducted! and help is the attend- 
ant of a heart instructed by counsel. 
-Wisdom and good understanding are in the gates of the 


- wise: the wise turn not away from the commandment of 


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the Lord: but they consult in counsels. 
Death meeteth the uninstructed and a fool dieth by sins. 
‘In a man who is selfwilled, arrogant and boastful there is 
impurity : in an evil day and a day of adversity, he will be 


~ stained deeper and deeper, until he utterly faint. 


Deliver them who are to be led away to death; and inter- 
cede for them who are to be slain, make no delay. If thou 
should say, Ido not know this man: know that the Lord 
knoweth the hearts of all: and that he, who gave breath to all, 
knoweth all ahities: and will render to every one according to 
his works. 

My son; eat honey (for a honey comb is good) that thy pa- 
late may be sweetened. In like manner let thy soul taste wis- 
dom; for if thou find it, thy end will be good and hope will 
not forsake thee. 

Lead not the wicked to the pasture of the righteous; | nor 
be led astray for a bellyfull. For a righteous man may fall 
seven times and rise again; but in scnlnusitics the wicked shall 
be. without strength. 

If thine enemy fall rejoice not over him; nor be elated at 
his stumbling: for the Lord will see and it will displease ne 
and he will turn away his wrath. 

Rejoice not over evil doers nor envy sinners. For the poste- 


» rity of an evil one cannot continue; and the lamp of the wicked 


19. 


shall be extinguished. 

~My son, fear God and the king and We not disobedient to 
either of them. For they can suddenly punish the wicked; and 
their punishments who can know? 


21. -. Ason who keepeth the word shall be far from destr uc- 


tion; for he hath received it to effect. 

Let no falsehood be uttered from the mouth of a king, and 
from his mouth let no falsehood proceed. 

The tongue of a king is a sword and not flesh; whoever 


"is delivered up to it shall be destroyed. For if his wrath be 


sharpened, it consumeth men with thongs, and devoureth the 


Ch. XXX. XXIV. PROVERBS. 


bones of men; or like a fame, burneth them Ups so that they 
cannot be devoured by young eagles. 

XXX. My son, be awed by these words of mine, receive them © 
and reform. Thus saith the man to them who trust in God— 
but I stop. For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have 

2 not the understanding of man in me. God hath taught me wis- 
dom: and I lave gained a knowledge of holy things. 

3 Who hath ascended up to heaven and come down ? 

Who hath collected the winds in his bosom ? 

Who hath infolded the water in a mantle? Ὁ 

Who hath a dominion over all the ends of the earth ὃ 
What is his name? or what the name of his sons? 

Since all the words of God are tried, and he is a shield to 


them who revere him; add not to his words lest he reprove 


thee and thou be found a liar. 
Two things I beg of thee—deprive me not of favour before 
Idie; remove far from me vanity and lying. Give me neither 
riches nor poverty, but order for me things necessary and 
convenient ; that when I am filled I may not become false and 
say, Who seeth me? Or being in want, steal and swear by the 
name of God. 
Deliver not up a servant into the hands of a master ; lest 
he curse thee and thou be removed out of sight. 
A wicked progeny curse their father and bless not — 
mother. 
A wicked progeny judge themselves righteous, but have 
not purged their ways. 
A wicked progeny have lofty eyes and uplifted eyebrows. 
A wicked progeny have teeth like swords and grinders 
like cleavers, so as to consume and devour the —— from the 
earth, and the needy from among men. 
XXIV. 23 But this I say to you who are wise to know, it is not 
good to respect a person in judgment. . 
24. He who saith of the wicked, “Ης is not guilty,” shall be 
25 cursed by the tribes and hateful to the nations: but they who 
reprove shall appear better ; and upon them a blessing shall 
come. 
26 Lips will kiss the things which convey good words. 
27 Prepare thy works for the time of going out, and be in com- 


Ch. XXX. PROVERBS. 


plete preparation for the field and come after me; then thou 
shalt build thyself a house. 

28 Be not a false witness against thy fellow citizen, nor give a 

29 loose to thy lips. Do not say, ‘I will use him as he hath used 

_ me; and punish him for the injuries he hath done me.” 

30 A fool is like a field, and a man void of understanding, like 

31 a vineyard; if thou lettest them alone, they will be overrun 
with weeds and grass, and become useless, and their stone 
fences will be thrown down. 

82 Ihave at length repented and looked about, with a view to 

33 chuse instruction. I am dozing a little—just taking a short 

34 nap—just infolding my breast with my hands. If such indeed 
be thy conduct ; poverty will come upon thee like a traveller 
and want like a swift courier. 

XXX. 15 The leech had three daughters greatly beloved, but 
these three did not satisfy her—nay even the fourth did not 
suffice for her to say, There'is enough. 

16 The grave, and lust for women, and land unsatiated with 
water—nay water and fire will never say, There is enough. 

17 The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age 
of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the 
young eagles devour it. 

18 There are three things which I cannot perceive, and a fourth 
which I do not know—the tracks of an eagle in its flying—the 
footsteps of a serpent on a rock—the marks of a ship crossing 

20 the sea—and the ways ofa man in youth. Such is the way of an 
adulterous woman, who having committed the act and washed 
herself, saith, that she hath done nothing improper. 

2) By three things a-land is disturbed, and a fourth it cannot 

22 bear—a servant when he reigneth—a fool when filled with 

23 meat—a handmaid when she expelleth her mistress—and an 
odious woman when she hath a good husband. 

24 There are four things on the earth which are very small, yet 

25 they are wiser than the wise—the ants, which not having 

26 strength, provide their food in summer—the choirogryllus, 
which being a feeble nation have built their houses among 

27 rocks—the locusts, which having no king encamp regularly 

28 at the word of command—and the calabotes, which depending 
on its feelers and being easily caught maketh its abode in the 
fortresses of kings. 


Ch. ΧΧΧΙ. XXV. PROVERBS. 


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30 


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33 


There are three things which march well and a fourth 
which is stately in its gait—a young lion the strongest of beasts 
which turneth not aside nor feareth any beast—and a cock 
strutting magnanimously among his females—and a he-goat 

marching at the head of a flock—and a king se pa a 
nation. 
If thou sufferest thyself to be elated with joy αὐᾷ engagest 
in battle thou wilt incur disgrace. 
Churn milk and there will be butter, and if thou wringest the 
nose, blood will issue forth; so if thou usest provoking lan- 


guage contentions and quarrels will ensue. 


XXXI. These words of mine have been dictated by God, 


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they are the prophecy of a king whom his mother instructed. 
What wilt thou keep my son? What! keep the dictates of 
God. One right of primogeniture I tell thee, my son. What 
is it thou son of my womb Ὁ What is it thou son of my vows? 
Give not thy wealth to women; nor thine understanding. and 
thy life for that which will bring sorrow. 

Do all things with counsel. Drink wine with counsel. 
Princes are passionate, therefore let them not drink wine, lest 
by drinking they forget wisdom, and become incapable of ad- 
ministering justice to the oppressed. 

Give strong drink to those in trouble, and wine to be drunk 
by them who are in sorrow; that they may forget their distress 
and no more remember their troubles. 

Open thy mouth with the word of God, and administer jus- 
tice to all with a sound understanding. 

Open thy mouth and judge righteously, and plead the cause 
of the weak and needy. ; 


XXV. These are the detached instructions of Solomon which 


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the friends of Hezekias king of Judea copied out. 

The glory of God obscureth a-matter: but the glory of a 
king giveth a lustre to actions. 

Heaven is high and the earth is deep: and the heart of a 
king is unsearchable. 
Beat drossy silver and all that is pure will be purified. 
Slay the wicked from the presence of a king and his throne 
will be established in righteousness. 

Boast not in the presence of a king; nor range thyself in 


Ch. XXV. PROVERBS. 


10. 


the places of princes: For it is better it should be said to thee; - 
«Come up hither ;” than that thou shouldst give place at the | 
presence of a prince. 

Tell what thine eyes have seen. 

Enter not hastily intoa quarrel: lest thou repent at the last 


when thy friend shall upbraid thee. 


In yielding shew no contempt, lest thy friend upbraid thee: 
in which case thy quarrel and enmity will not cease, but last 
till death. 

Favour and friendship give freedom. Keep these for thyself 
that thou mayst not be exposed to reproach. But keep thy 


- ways witha placable temper. 


It is an apple of gold in a sardine bracelet, thus to speak 
a word. 

A precious caetnull d is bound to an ear-ring of gold; and a 
word of wisdom to an obedient ear. 

As the coming out of snow in harvest is grateful accord- 
ing to the degree of heat: so is a faithful messenger to them 
who send him: for he refresheth the souls of them who em- 
ploy him. — 

As winds and clouds and rain are conspicuous things; so is 
he who boasteth for a false gift. 

By patience kings have a prosperous journey : and a soft 
tongue breaketh bones. 

Having found honey eat just what is sufficient: lest being 
glutted thou vomit it up. } 

Go seldom to the house of thy friend: lest he be cloyed 
with thee and hate thee. 

Sharp is a nail and a sword and an arrow: so is a man 
who beareth false witness against his friend. , 

The way of a bad man pate the foot of a transgressor shall 
be destroyed in an evil day. 

As vinegar is hurtful to a boil; so bodily disease giveth 
pain to the heart. 

As a moth in a garment and a worm in wood: so a man’s 
grief hurteth the heart. 

If thine enemy hunger feed him; if he be thirsty give him 
drink: for by doing this thou wilt use the means to melt him ; 
and the Lord will reward thee with good. 


Ch. XXVE - PROVERBS. 


23 ‘The north wind raiseth clouds: and an impudent counte- 
nance irritateth the tongue. — ) 

24 It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, than with 
a scolding wife in a wide house. 

25. Ascold water is grateful to a thirsty soul; 50 15 good news 
from a distant country. 

26 As if one should stop up a fountain and destroy an outlet 
of water: so is it disorderly for a righteous man to fall before 
the wicked. 

27 It is not good to eat too much honey: but we wii to 
honour glorious words. 

28 A man who doth any thing without counsel; is like a city 
which hath the foundations of walls laid. and is without walls. . 

XXVI. As dew at the ingathering of fruit and as rain in har- 
vest; so is honour for a fool. 


2 As birds and ostriches fly away; so a vain curse will not 
light on any one. 
a As a whip for a horse and a goad for an ass; so isa scourge 


for a sinful nation. 
4 Answer not a fool conformably to his folly; lest thou be- 
_ 5 come like him. But answer a fool according to his folly ; that 
he may not think himself wise. 


6 He who sendeth a message by a foolish AROS by his 
own ways procureth disgrace. 
a | As well take walking from the legs; as transgression from 


the mouth of fools. 
8° He who bindeth a stone in a a sling i is like him who giveth 
honour to a fool. 
9 Thorns stick in the hands of a drunken man; and inst δ in 
the hand of fools. 
10 All the flesh of fools is in a tempest: for their soundest sleep 


is broken. 

1} As a dog becometh odious when he returneth to his vo- 
mit; so is a fool his wickedness, when he srese gr to 
‘his sin. 

12 There is a shame which leadeth to sin: and a shame which 
-procureth glory and honour. 

13 I have seen a man who thought himself wise: but there 


was more hope of a fool than of him. 


Ch. XXVII. PROVERBS. 


14 A slothful man sent on a journey saith, There is a lion in 
the way and murderers in the streets. | 

15 As a door turneth on its πέννα so doth a slothful man.on 
his bed. 

16 A slothful man having hid his hand in his bosom cannot 
bring it out to his mouth. 

17 A slothful man thinketh himself wiser than him who in 
plenty carrieth a message. 

He who meddleth with another’s steel is like one who 

taketh a dog by the tail. 

18 As they nar undertake to cure throw out words for men; 
and he who falleth in with the proposal will be first supplant- 

19 ed; soall who ensnare their friends, when they are found out 
say, I did it in sport. 


20 By much fuel a fire is nourished: but where there is no 
stirrer up of quarrels, contention ceaseth. 
21 A hearth is for coals and fuel for fire: and a contentious 


man for the bustle of strife. 
92 The words of the crafty are soft: but they pierce the 
inmost recesses of the soul. | 
23. Silver given with deceit, should be accounted as a potsherd. 
Smooth lips disguise a wicked heart. 
24 5ΞΑΡὈ(.Α΄ὴ weeping enemy assenteth to every thing with his lips : 
but in his heart he contriveth deceit. 


25. Though an enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, believe 
him not: for in his heart there is seven fold wickedness. 
26 He who concealeth enmity practiseth deceit; but being 


found out he discloseth his sins in publick assemblies. 
27 May he who diggeth a pit for his neighbour fall into it ; 
and he who rolleth a stone, roll it on himself. . 
28 A lying tenigne hateth truth; anda flattering mouth work- 
eth ruin. 
XXVII. ~~ Boast not of things of to-morrow; for thou knowest not 
what the coming day will bring forth. 
p Let a neighbour praise thee and not thine « own mouth—a 
stranger and not thine own lips. 
3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty ; ὅκα ἃ fool’s anger 
is heavier than both, 


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Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can 
withstand envy. | 

Open rebukes are better than concealed love. 

More faithful are the wounds of a friend ; than the feigned 
kisses of an enemy. 

A full soul loatheth a honey comb : but to a hungry soul 
even bitter things are sweet. 

As a bird when taken hooded from its nest; so is a man 
reduced to slavery, when removed from his country. 

With myrrh and wine and perfumes the heart is cheered : 
but with misfortunes the spirit is broken. 

‘Thine own friend and thy father’s friend forsake not; but 
when unfortunate go not to the house of thy brother. 

Better isa friend near at hand, than a brother far off. 

Be wise, my son that thy heart may rejoice, and remove 
from thee reproachful speeches. 

When ills approach, a prudent man is hidden: but the 

simple pass on to their sorrow. 

Take away his mantle, for a scorner passed by who wast- 
eth the property of others. 

He who blesseth-a friend with a loud voice, rising early, 
will appear not unlike one who curseth him. 

A continual dropping driveth a man out of his house in a 
rainy day : and so dotha contentious wife. 

Boreas is a harsh wind, though it be called by an honour- 
able name. 

Iron sharpeneth iron, but a man exasparateth the face of a 
companion. 

He who planteth a fig tree shall eat of its fruit; and he 
who guardeth his master shall be honoured. 

As faces do not resemble faces: so neither do the thoughts 
of men. 

The grave and destruction are never satisfied: in like man- 


ner the eyes of men are insatiable. 


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He who hath staring eyes, and fools who cannot govern 
their tongue ; are an abomination to the Lord. 

Fire is the trier of gold and silver : but a man 15 tried by 
the mouth of them who praise him. 

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Ch. ΧΧΥΠ. + PROVERBS. 


The heart of a transgressor seeketh evils: but a righteous 
heart seeketh knowledge.— 
22 Though thou shouldst whip a fool publickly and disgrace 
him: thou canst not take away his folly. 
23 Be careful to know the state of thy flock ; and pay close 
24 attention to thy herd: for wealth and power do not continue 
with aman forever; nor can he transmit them from one eae 
ration to another. 
25 Take care of the herbage in thy field: mow grass and 
ey collect provender from the hills: that thou — have sheep 
for clothing. 
27 Honour the field that thou mayst have lambs. 
My son, thou hast sayings from me powerfully conducive 
to thy life: and the life of thy servants. 
XXVIII. The wicked fleeth when none pursueth: but the 
righteous is bold as a lion. 
2 Contentions are raised by the sins of the wicked: but a pru- 
dent man extinguisheth them. 
9 A mighty man by wicked acts oppresscth the poor. 
As a sweeping rain is indeed unprofitable, so are they who 
4. fersake the law and applaud iniquity: but they who love the 
law encompass themselves with a wall. 
5 Bad men will not understand judgment: but they who 
seek the Lord will be wise in every thing. 
6 Better isa poor man who walketh in truth than a rich liar, 
7 A wise son keepeth the law; but he who feedeth prodi- 
gality dishonoureth his father. 
8 He who increaseth his wealth by usury and unjust gain ; 
gathereth it for him who will pity the poor. 


9 As for him who turneth away his ear from hearkening | to 
the law ; even his prayer is an abomination. 
10 He who causeth the righteous to wander in an evil way 


shall himself fall into destruction. 
The upright shall have good things in possession: but 
11 the unrighteous shall pass by good things and shall not enter 
into them. 
A rich man is wise in his own conceit. But a pene. man 
who hath understanding will find him out. 


Ch. XXIX. PROVERBS. 


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For helping the righteous there is great glory: but in the 
places of the wicked; men are entrapped. 
He who covereth his wickedness shall not prosper; but he 
who confesseth and forsaketh will be beloved. 
Happy the man who piously feareth all things: but he who 
is of an intractable temper will fall into evils. 
He who ruleth over a poor nation, himself being poor, is a 
hungry lion and a ravening wolf. 
A king straitened in his revenue is a great oppressor: but he 
who hateth injustice shall live long. 
He who is bail for a man in a case of murder, shall be a fit. 
gitive, but not in safety. 
Correct a son and he will love thee and be an ornament to 
thy life. He will not hearken to an unrighteous nation. 
He who walketh righteously will be helped: but he who 
walketh in crooked ways will be entangled. 
He who tilleth his own ground shall have plenty of bread; 
but he who followeth idleness, shall have plenty of poverty. 
A faithful man will be much praised; but the wicked shall 
not escape punishment. 
He who regardeth not the persons of the righteous, is not 
good: such a one will deliver up a man for a morsel of bread. 
An envious man hasteth to be rich, and knoweth not that 
the bountiful shall have mastery over him. 
He who reproveth a man’s ways shall have more thanks 
than he who hath a flattering tongue. 
He who casteth off a father or mother and thinketh that 
he doth not sin; is indeed the partner of an impious man. 
A-faithless man judgeth rashly: but he who trusteth in the 
Lord will be careful. 
He who putteth confidence in the boldness of his heart is 
a fool: but he who walketh wisely shall be saved. 
He who giveth to the poor shall not be in want: but he 
who turneth away his eyes shall be indigent. 
In the places of the wicked, the righteous groan: but by 
their destruction, the righteous will be multiplied. 


XXIX. Better is a man of experience, than a man who is 


stiff-necked: for when the latter is suddenly burned, there is 
no healing him. | 


Ch. XXIX. PROVERBS. 


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When the righteous are applauded the people will rejoice: 
but when the wicked bear rule, men will mourn. 
When a man loveth wisdom his father is gladdened: but. 
he who feedeth harlots spendeth his substance. 
A righteous king raiseth a country; but a transgressor 
overthroweth it. 
He who shall provide a net to catch his friend; i. 
it for his own feet. 
Fora mighty transgressor there is a great snare; but the 
just shall have joy and gladness. 
A righteous man is skilled in administering justice to the 
poor: but the wicked doth not take due cognisance: nor hath 
he a feeling heart for the poor. 
Men regardless of law, set a city in a flame: but wise men 
avert wrath. 
A wise man shall judge nations: but a fool when angry is 
derided and terrifieth not. 
Men stained with blood hate one who is holy: but the up- 
right will make strict inquest for his life. 
A fool sheweth all his wrath; but a wise man dispenseth 
it gradually. 
When a king hearkeneth to falsehood, all under him are 
transgressors. 
When creditor and debtor meet each other; the Lord hath 
a watch over both. — 
When a king judgeth the poor faithfully; his throne will 
be established for a memorial. 
The rod and reproofs give wisdom: but a child led astray 
shameth his parents. 
When the wicked abound, transgressions are multiplied: 
but when they fall, the righteous are awed. 
Correct thy son and he will give thee rest; and add honour 
to thy life. 
With a sinful nation an instructor can not continue: but he 
who keepeth the law is most happy. 
A stubborn servant will not be instructed by words : for 
though he may understand he will not obey. 
If thou seest a man hasty in his words: be assured einedts is 
more hope of a fool than of him. 7 


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XXXI. PROVERBS. 


He who feedeth delicately from his youth, shall be a ser- 
vant and at last afflicted with sorrow. 

A passionate man stirreth up strife: but a furious man is 
a digger up of sin. 

A man’s pride will bring him low: but the Lord will glo- 
riously support the humble. 

He who is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: and so 
do they, who hear an oath administered, if they do not make 
discovery. 

They who fear and reverence men have been supplanted : ᾿ 
but he whose trust is in the Lord shall be gladdened. 

Impiety causeth a man to fall: but he who trusteth in the 
Lord shall be safe. 

Many court the favour of ἀμ, but justice cometh to a 
man from the Lord. 

A righteous man is an abomination to an unjust man : and 
a straight course is an abomination to a transgressor. 


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indeed more valuable than precious stones. 

The heart of her husband trusteth in her : such a one hath 
no need of spoils: for she laboureth for her husband’s good 
all her life long. 

Having spun wool and flax she made a useful work with her 
hands. She was like a merchant vessel which bringeth riches 
from afar: She arose by night and gave food to her house- 
hold and work to her maids. Having viewed a field she bought 
it, and with the fruits of her hands γι the purchase. Hav- 
ing girded herself tight about the waist, she strengthened her 
arms for work. And finding that it was good to work, her 
lamp is not extinguished the whole night. Her elbows she ex- 
tendeth over the spindle; and her hands she keepeth at the 
distaff. But she opened her hand to the needy; and stretched 
out her handful to the distressed. Her husband when long 
abroad is not concerned for those at home: for all with her 
are well clothed. She made for her husband double garments; 
and for herself robes of cotton and purple. And her husband isdis- 
tinguished in the gates; when he sitteth in council with the elders 
of the land. She made sindons and sold girdles to the Chananites. 
She opened her mouth sparingly and with propriety; and had 


Ch. XXXI. PROVERBS. 


25 her tongue in due subjection. She clothed herself with majes- 
26 ty and excellence, and enjoyed delights in her latter days. The. 
gates of her house were kept close shut; and she eatethnot 
27 the bread of idleness. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, 
28 and maxims of prudence. Her bounty caused her children to | 
honour her; for they were rich, and her husband praised her. 


29 Many daughters have possessed wealth, many have acted 
virtuously: but thou hast surpassed—thou hast excelled all. 
30 False are allurements, and vain the beauty ofa wife. For a 


woman of understanding is blessed. Let her therefore praise the 
31 fear of the Lord. Give her of the fruits of her hands; and let 
her husband be praised in the gates. 


ECCLESIASTES. 


I. The words of the preacher the son of David, king of Isract 
_ im Jerusalem. 
2 VANITY of vanities, said the preacher. Vanity of vanities. 
Allis vanity. 
83 What lasting advantage hath a man by all the labour with 
4 which he toileth under the sun? One generation passeth away 
and another cometh. But the earth hath continually kept its 
station. 
5 The sun riseth and the sun setteth and cometh round to 
6 his place. Rising there he marcheth southward, then wheeleth 
7 about to the north. The wind wheeleth in circuits, and in its 
circuits it returneth, All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea 
is not filled. To the place whence the rivers come, thither they 
8 return to continue their course. All these considerations are 
wearisome. Man cannot recount them : nor can the eye be sa- 
tisfied with seeing; nor the ear filled with hearing. 
9 What is that which hath been? The very same which shall 
be. And what is that which hath been done? The very same 
which shall be done: for there is nothing entirely new under 
10 the sun. Who can speak and say, Behold this is entirely new. 
It hath been already in the ages past which were before us. 
11 There is no remembrance of former things: and of those 
things which shall happen hereafter, there will .be no remem- 
brance among them who shall be born at a remote period. 


Ch: ΤῈ ECCLESIASTES. 


12 I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem; and 1 
13 applied my heart to seek and make diligent search by wisdom 
concerning all the things which are done on the earth. Be- 
cause God hath assigned to the sons of men painful employ- 
14 ment, that they may be kept employed, I took a view of all 
the different sorts of works which are done under the sun. 
15 And behold they are all vanity and vexation of spirit. That 
which is crooked cannot be made straight, nor can wants be 
numbered. Ὁ | 
16 I communed with my heart, saying, Behold I am become 
ereat and have made advances in wisdom above all who were 
before me in Jerusalem. And I have applied my mind to know 
17 wisdom and knowledge. And my mind hath taken a view of 
many things—of wisdom and knowledge—of parables and 
18 science. I have found by experience that this also is indeed 
vexation of spirit. 
iI. Because by much wisdom there is much knowledge; and 
he who addeth to his knowledge will add to his sorrow; I said 
in my heart, Come now let me try thee with pleasure. Take a 
view of that considered as a good. But behold this also is va-_ 
nity. To laughter I said, It is madness; and to mirth, What is 
this thou art doing? 

Now I had examined whether my mind could lead my 
flesh to wine; and my mind had led it with wisdom, retaining 
. a command over pleasure, until I should see of what sort that 
good is, which the sons of men are to pursue under the sun, 
all the days of their life. I enlarged my plan of operations. I 
built me houses. I planted me vineyards. I made me gardens 
and orchards and planted therein all sorts of fruit trees. I made 
me pools of water, to water from them my blooming nurse- 

7 ries. 1 purchased men servants and maid servants; and had 
servants born in my family. And my stock of herds and flocks 

8 was great above all who were before me in Jerusalem. I col- 
lected also for myself silver and gold and the choicest treasures 

of kings and countries. I got me men singers and women 
singers, and the delights of the sons of men—a butler and the 

9 requisites to entertainments. And I was great and surpassed 
all who had been before me in Jerusalem; and still my wisdom 

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held not from them, nor did I restrain my heart from all my 
pleasure. 

Because my heart had been eladdened wiih all my labour, 
(now this was my portion from all my labour) therefore I look- 
ed back on all the works which my hands had done, and on 
the labour with which I had toiled to execute them; and be- 
hold all was vanity and vexation of spirit and there is no last- 
ing advantage under the sun. 

Then I looked back to take a view of whedon and mad- 
ness and folly. Inall the particulars which formed this delibe- 
ration (for who is the man equal toa compleat investigation) 
I saw indeed that there is an advantage in wisdom above fol- 
ly, like the advantage of light above darkness. The wise man’s 
eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. Never- 
theless Iknewthat one event will happen to them all. Therefore I 
said in my heart, As the same event will happen to me as hap- 


. peneth to the fool, why have I studied wisdom? Why com- 


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muned abundantly with my heart? Because even this is vanity — 
(since out of an abundance the fool speaketh)—because there 
is no remembrance forever of the wise man more than of the 
fool (seeing the days are now coming when all shall be for- 
gotten and the wise must die as well as the fool) therefore I 
hated the whole of this life; because the work which was done 
under the sun was toilsome to me—-because all are vanity and 
vexation of spirit: and I hated all this labour of mine for 
which I am toiling under the sun; because I must leave it toa 
man who is coming after me; and who knoweth whether he 
shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all 
my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have dis- 
played wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity. 

Then I turned about that my heart might state distinctly 
in every labour of mine in which I had toiled under the sun— 
that here is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom and 
with knowledge, and with ability; and there isa man to whom, 
though he did not labour for him, he shall give his portion. 
Surely this is vanity and a great vexation—That such is the 
case with another man by all his labours and the vexation of 
his heart with which he toileth under the sun, that all his days 
are days of sorrow and his employment grief, and even at nignt 
his heart hath no rest. Surely this is vanity. 


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᾿ (a) Hath not a man something good which he can eat and drink, 
and which he can point out to his soul as a good by his labour ὃ 
(b) With respect to that I saw indeed that even this is from 
the hand of God; for who can eat or who can drink without 
him? For to the man who is good in his sight he hath given 
wisdom and knowledge and joy; and to the sinner he hath 
given the trouble of gathering and heaping up to give to him 
who is good in the sight of God. So that this also is vanity and 
vexation of spirit. 

Time is for all things: but there is a particular portion of 
time for every particular affair under heaven—a time to be born 
and a time to die—a time to plant and atime to root up what 
was planted—a time to kill and a time to heal—a time to pull 
down and a time to build up—a time to weep and a time to 
laugh—a time to mourn and a time to dance—a time to cast 
away stones and a time to gather stones together—a time to 
embrace and a time to refrain from embracing—a time to seek 
and a time to lose—a time to keep and a time to throw away— 
a time to rend and a time to sew—a time to be silent and a 
time to speak—a time to love and a time to hate—a time of 
war and a time of peace. What is the lasting advantage of the 
agent from the things in which he laboureth? I have taken a 
collective view of all the business which God hath assigned to 
the sons of men to be exercised therewith. All the things 
which he made, considered as a whole, are good in his time. 
But with regard to all things considered as one whole, to them 
he hath assigned the whole age; so that no man can find out 
the work which God hath done from beginning to end. I have 
found that there is no good in them (I mean in regard to every 
man who eateth and drinketh, and can see good in all his la- 
bour) if there is not a gift of God that he may be made glad 
and do good in his life. I have found that all the things which 
God hath made shall continue their age; there is no adding to it 


_ nortaking from it; and that God hath acted that they may be aw- 


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ed at his presence. What hath been is now: and what are to be 
have already been; and God will find out him who is persecut- 
ed: and yet I saw under the sun a place of judgment ; was the 


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wicked there ? and a place for the just; was the pious there ? 
17 Then I said in my heart God will judge the whole class of the 
righteous, and the whole class of the wicked. For there is a 
time for every thing; and he is there over all the work. 
18 I communed with my heart concerning ἃ saying of the sons 
of men, “ That God distinguisheth them.” Now in order to 
19 shew that they themselves are beasts, that at least which be- 
falleth man, befalleth them ; and that which befalleth the beast 
befalleth man. The same event happeneth to both. As the one 
dieth, so doth the other. And they have all one breath. What 
advantage then hath man over the beast ? None: for all are ya- 
20 nity. They are all for one place. They were all from dust: 
21 and to dust they shall all return. And who hath seen the breath 
of the sons of men whether it ascendeth upwards; and the 
breath of the beast, whether it descendeth downwards into the 
22 earth? So I saw that there is nothing good in the works of 
man, but that by which he can be made glad; for that is his 
portion, for who will bring him to see what will be after him ? 
IV. Then I turned and took a view of all the different sorts: of 
oppression under the sun; and behold the tear of the oppress- 
ed and they have no comforter. Though from the hand of op- 
2 pressors some have relief; yet others have no comforter. There- 
fore I praised the whole body of the dead—those who were 
3 already dead, above the living—those who are still alive: but 
better than both is he who hath never been—who hath not seen 
all the evil work which is done under the sun. | 
4. In the review of labour in general, I took a view in parti- 
cular of manly exertion in executing. Because this causetha 
man to be envied by his neighbour, this therefore is vanity and 
5 vexation of spirit. The fool folded his hands and devouring 
6 his flesh said, Better is one handful of rest than two handfuls 
of labour and vexation of spirit. 
7 Then 1 turned and took a view of a vanity under the sun— 
8 Here is a single individual who hath no second; at least he hath 
neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labour. 
His eye is not satisfied with riches, yet doth he say, For whom 
do I labour and deprive my soul of good? Surely this is vanity 
9 anda sore yexation. Two are better than one. They have a bet- 
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can raise up his fellow. But alas for him who is alone, when 
he falleth and hath not another to raise him up. Again if two 
lie together they have warmth: but how can one be warm who 
is alone? Again though one should be strong the two may 
withstand him, and a three fold cord cannot easily be broken. 

Better is a poor and wise subject than an old and foolish 
king who hath not yet learned how to conduct himself; for 
out of prison he may come to reign. Because even in his own 
kingdom he was needy, I took a view of the whole body of 
the living who were walking under the sun with the youth 
second in rank who is to succeed him. There is no end of all 
the people—of all who resorted to them. Yet they who come 
last will have no joy in him. Surely this also is vanity and 
vexation of spirit. 

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and 
let thy sacrifice be a readiness to hear rather than the oblation 
of fools. Because they are not sensible that they do amiss, be 
thou not rash with thy mouth; nor let thy heart be hasty to 
utter a word in the presence of God. Because God is in the 
heaven above, and thou art on the earth, let thy words there- 
fore be few. Because a dream cometh by much temptation, 
and a fool’s voice with many words ; when thou vowest a vow 
to God delay not the performance of it. For in fools there is no 
fixed will. Pay thou therefore what thou vowest. It is better 
not to vow, than to vow and not perform. Suffer not thy 
mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say in the presence of 
God, It was an inadvertence, that God may not be provoked 
to wrath by thy voice, and destroy the works of thy hands, 
because it was with a multitude of dreams and vanities, and 
many words that thou fearest God. 

If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a 
rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, mar- 
vel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high 
one to watch, and high ones are for these things, and the profit 
of land is for every one, a king is appendant to the cultivated 
field. A lover of silver cannot be satisfied with silver; but did 
any one ever love what the abundance of this produceth ? 
Surely this is vanity. By an abundance of wealth they who 
consume it are multiplied. And what is the mighty advantage 
of the owner from it? That he hath the first sight of it with 


Ch. VI. ECCLESIASTES. 


12 his eyes? The sleep.of the slave is sweet whether he eatcth 
little or much. But the fulness of the rich suffereth him not. 
to sleep. . 

13 There is a-weakness : which I have seen under the sun— 

14 riches kept by one for his descendant to his own hurt. Yet 
these riches acquired with grievous vexation shall perish, and 

15 he hath begotten a son, and there is nothing in his hand. As 
he came naked out of his mother’s womb, he shall turn about 
and goashe came, He shall take nothing by his labour to go 

16 with him in his hand. Surely this is a grievous weakness ; 
for as he came, so he must depart. What then is his lasting 

17 advantage, for which he laboureth in vain; and for which all 
his days are in darkness and mourning, and much grief and 
weakness and repining ? 

18 Behold I have seen a good which is comely, namely to 
eat.and drink, and to have a good enjoyment in all the labour 
with which one toileth under the sun, the number of the days 
of his life which God hath given him ; for this is his portion. 

19 And every man. indeed to whom God hath given riches and 
wealth, and granted him power to eat thereof, and to take his 
portion, hath by means of his being made glad in his labour, 

20 this further gift of God, that he will not much remember the 
days of his life, because God occupieth him with the joy.of 
his heart. 

VI... There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it 
2 is common among men—a man to whom God giveth riches 
and wealth.and glory, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul 
of all that he can desire; but God granteth him not a power 
to eat thereof. In as much asa stranger is to devour it, this is 
vanity and grievous infirmity. Though a man should beget a 
hundred. children and live many years, if during that multi- 
tude of years which his days shall continue, his soul shall not 
be satisfied with an enjoyment of good, and he hath got no 
burying place, I conclude that an bortive is better than he. 
Grant that it came in vanity and goeth away in darkness ; with 
darkness also his name shall be covered! It indeed never saw 
the light; and he never knew rest: it hath an advantage over 

him though he had lived the revolutions of a thousand. years, 
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All the labour of a man is for the mouth; yet the appetite 
will not be satisfied : here then a wise man hath the advantage 
over a fool ; since the poor man knoweth that to pass through 
life, what he sees with the eyes. is better for him than to be 
wandering after appetite, which is indeed vanity and vexation 
of spirit. 

Whatever hath been is now called by its name, and it is 
known what man is who. cannot contend with one, who is 
stronger than he. ) 

Since there are many arguments to prove the abundance 
of vanity; is there any one thing better than another for man? 
Doth any one know what is good for man jn this life? All the 
days of his life of vanity he hath indeed done these things un- 
der a shade; is there any who can tell him what will be after 
him under the sun? 


Vil. A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of 


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death, than a birth day. It is better to go to a house of mourn- 
ing than to a house of feasting. As that is the end of every 
man therefore the living will improve his understanding. 
Grief is better than laughter ; for by a sadness of countenance 
a heart may be made better. The heart of the wise is in a house 
of mourning; but the heart of fools, in a house of mirth. It 
is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise, than to lis- 
ten to the song of fools. Like the crackling of thorns under a 
pot, so is the laughter of fools. Surely this. also is vanity. Be- 
cause oppression distracteth a wise man and destroyeth his 
good disposition, the final sentence is better than such a go- 
vernment. Better is a patient man than one of a haughty spirit. 

Be not apt to be grieved in spirit; for grief will rest in the 
bosom of fools. Say not, How happened it that the former days 
were better than these? For thou hast not inquired wisely 
concerning this. Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and it 
is an advantage to them who see the sun, that they are in the 
shade of it. Wisdom is like the shade of money; but the ad- 
vantage of the knowledge of wisdom is—it will give life to 
him who is a follower of it. Contemplate the works of God; for 
who can make him straight whom God hath made crooked. 
In the days of prosperity enjoy gocd; but consider in the day 
of adversity—consider that God hath made the one in due 


Ch. VIII. ECCLESIASTES. 


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proportion to the other, forming a whole, as hath been said, 
that man cannot find out any of his ways. 

In the days of my vanity I took a view of all classes. Here 
is a righteous man perishing for his righteous act: there a 
wicked man continuing in his wickedness. Be not over right- 
eous; nor dive too far into wisdom, lest peradventure thou be 
struck with astonishment. Run not into an excess of wicked- 
ness nor become hardened, that thou mayst not die untimely. 
It is good to restrain thyself in the one case; and surely for the 
other consideration thou shouldst not pollute thy hand. Be- 
cause to them who fear God all things may happen, wisdom 
will help the wise man more than ten mighty men who are in 
the city. Because there is not arighteous man on earth who will 
do good and not commit sin, therefore thou shouldst not pay too 
close attention to all the words which the wicked shall utter, 
that thou mayst not hear thy servant cursing thee. For many 
a time he may revile thee and in many ways vex thy heart, be- 
cause thou perhaps in like manner didst curse others. 

Having proved all these things by wisdom, I said, Let me 
investigate the cause. But that was far removed from me; far- 
ther than it was. It is indeed a deep depth, who can find it out? 

I took a circuit with my heart to know and examine care- 
fully and to seek wisdom and a mode of calculating, and to 
gain a knowledge of a particular folly and disquietude and 
madness of one destitute of the fear of God; and I find and 
can declare, That bitterer than death is that whole class of wo- 
men who are prostitutes. Though their heart is nets and their 
hands chains, he who is good in the sight of God shall be de- 
livered from them; but a sinner shall be taken by them. Be- 
hold this 1 found (said the preacher) examining them one by 
one to finda class which my soul earnestly sought, but I did 
not find: though I found one man of a thousand, yet a woman 
among all these I did not find: but behold this I found, that 
God ade mankind upright ; but they have found out many 
classes. 


ΨΠΙ. Doth any one know wise men? Doth any one know the 


Ω 


ad 


solution of a matter? Wisdom will make his countenance — 
shine; but one of an unblushing countenance will be hated. 
Watch the mouth of a king, and in regard to the oath of 


Ch. VIII. ECCLESIASTES. 


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4 
ἐν 


God be not impatient. From his presence thou mayst with- 
draw. Stay not when he giveth wicked orders; for he will do 
what he pleaseth, as a king is absolute; and who can say to 
him, What dost thou? He who keepeth a command will not 
acknowledge it to be—a wicked order; but a wise man’s heart 
knoweth the time of judgment, that—there is a time and a 


6 judgment for every thing. Because the man’s determination 


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may be much against him—because none knoweth what may 
happen, who can tell him what may come to pass? No man is 
absolute commander over wind to stop the current of it, and 
over the day of death he hath no authority; nor is there a dis- 
charge in the day of battle; nor can wickedness save him who 
is under its sway. 

Having taken a view of this as a whole, I applied my heart 
to every work which is done under the sun—to all those things 
in which man exerciseth authority over man to his hurt. And ᾿ς 
I then saw wicked men carried to their graves, even out of this 
holy place; and when they were gone, they were praised in 
the city, because they had done as they did. Surely this is va- 
nity. Because those who do evil are not speedily called to an 
account, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set 
in them to do evil. He who sinned continued thenceforward 
to do evil, even because of the forbearance shewn to them. 


Now as I know that it is good for them who fear God, that 


they should be awed by his presence; and that it cannot be 
well with the wicked; and that he who is not awed by the pre- 
sence of God cannot prolong his days at case; this which 15 
practised on earth is vanity. 

Because there are righteous men on whom cometh as it 
were the work of the wicked; and because there are wicked 
men on whom cometh, as it were, the work of the righteous, 
I said that this is also surely vanity; and I praised pleasurable 
enjoyment, because there is nothing good for men under the 
sun—nothing save eating and drinking and being made glad; 


‘and this one may have conjoined with his labour all the days of 


his life which God giveth him under the sun. 
In all those things to which I applied my heart to know 
wisdom and to take a view of the business which is done on 


the earth; because day and night this is never at rest, therefore 


Ch. IX. ECCLESIASTES. 


I took a view of all the works of God in classes; for man is in- 
capable of finding out the whole system of things under the 
sun. Let a man labour ever so much in the search he cannot 
IX. find itout; and let a wise man say ever so much of knowing he 
cannot find it; for this cause 1 laid this whole system before my 
heart, and my heart took a view of it. As the righteous and 
the wise and their works are in the hand of God, man indeed 
knoweth not what to love or what to hate: with regard to all 
2 things before him there is vanity in them all. The same event 
happeneth to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, 
and to the bad; to the clean and to the unclean; to him who 
sacrificeth and to him who sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is 
the sinner; as is he who sweareth, so is he who feareth the 
3 oath. There is this evil in every thing done under the sun, 
that one event happeneth to them all, so that the heart of the 
children of men being filled with evil there is an instability in 
their heart during their life, and it followeth them to the dead. 
4. Because whoever is in society with all the living hath hope— 
because the dog which is alive is better than the lion which 15 
5 dead—because they who are alive must know that they shall 
die; but the dead are not sensible of any thing and there is no 
6 more a portion for them—because the remembrance of these is 
forgotten, and their love and their hatred and their envy are al- 
_ ready perished and they have no more forever a portion in 
7 any thing done under the sun; come eat thy bread with cheer- 
fulness, and drink thy wine with a good heart: because God 
8 hath approved of thy works, let thy garments be always white; 
9 and let not oil be wanting on thy head: enjoy life also with 
the wife whom thou lovest ali the days of thy life of vanity, 
which are given thee under the sun; for this is thy portion in 
this life of thine, and this thy labour with which thou toilest 
10 under the sun. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all 
thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, 
nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go. 
1] Having turned about, I saw under the sun that the race is 
not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; nay not even 
bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding; nor fa- 
vour to men of knowledge—that time and chance will happen 
to them all as forming one whole. That man indeed no more 


f 


ἔην ale ECCLESIASTES. 


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knoweth his time than the fishes which are enclosed in an evil 
dredge, or than birds which are caught in a net. Like them the 
sons of men are drawn into an evil time when it cometh upon 
them suddenly. 

This also 1 saw under the sun in regard to wisdom which 
with me is in high estimation. There was a small city and few 
meninit. Andthere came against it a mighty king who besieged 
it and built»great ramparts against it; but he happened to find 
in ita poor wise beggar, and this man by his wisdom saved 
the city; yet no man remembered the class of this poor beg- 
gar. Now [have said, Wisdom is better than power, yet the 
wisdom of this poor man is despised and his words are not re- 
garded. The words of wise men ina time of rest are more 
minded than the shout of men exercising authority in the bus- 
tles of folly. Wisdom is better than implements of war. One 

sinner indeed will destroy much good. Dead flies will 
spoil the best prepared perfumes: but the smallest portion of 
wisdom is of more value than the greatest glory of folly. The 
heart of a wise man is on his right: but the heart of a fool is at 
his left. In every way at least when a fool is on his march his 
heart will fail him so that all which he shail devise is folly. 

If the spirit of a ruler rise up against thee, resign not thy 
place: for a reconciliation will mollify great offences. 

There is an evil which 1 have seen under the sun as if some- 
thing involuntary came forth from the presence of a person in 
authority. The fool is set in high stations while the rich shall 
sit in a low place. I have seen slaves on horseback and princes 
walking like slaves on the ground. 

He who diggeth a pit may fall into it; and him, who is clear- 
ingaway ahedge, a serpent may bite. He who raisethstones high 
may be overpowered by them; and he who cleareth wood will 
thereby incur danger. If the axe shall fall, or one blunteth its 
edge and redoubled force is to be applied; the advantage will 
be in favour of the man who hath skill. If a serpent biteth at 
an interval of charming, there is then no advantage in him who 
charmeth. The words of a wise man’s mouth are a charm; but 
the lips of a foo! wiil swallow up himself. The beginning of the 
words of his mouth is folly and the end of his talk is malicious 
madness. ‘Though the fool multiplieth words, a man doth not. 

γον. BUI, Η 


Che ἘΠ, ECCLESIASTES. 


know what the matter is; and what that shall be which will fol- 
15 low who can tell him. The labour of the foolish will tire them 
like that of one who knoweth not the way toa city. 
16 Alas for thee, O city, whose king is a novice and whose 
17 chiefs eat in the morning. Happy thou, O land, whose king 
is a son of freemen and whose chiefs eat in due season for 
18 strength: and that they may not be put to shame. By slothful- 
ness the roof will fall, and by idleness of hands a house will 
19 become leaky, so as to excite a derision of them who are pro- 
viding bread and wine and oil that they may be regaled while 
20 living. But to the subjection of money all things will be obe- 
dient. Therefore curse not a king in thy mind, and in the 
inmost recesses of thy bed-chamber curse not a rich man: for 
a bird of the air will carry thy voice, and that which hath 
wings will tell thy saying. 
XI. Send away thy bread on the face of the water; for after 

2 many days thou shalt find it. Give a portion to seven and 
even to eight; for thou knowest not what evil may be on the 

3 earth. When the clouds are filled with rain they empty them- 
selves on the earth: and if.a tree falleth, whether it be to the 
south or north, m the place where it shall fall there it shall be. 

A He who observeth the wind will not sow; and he who looketh 
at the clouds will not reap. In these cases there is no knowing 

5 which way the wind will blow. As thou knowest not how 
bones are formed in the womb of her who is with child; so 
thou canst not know the works of God—all that he shall do 

6 forming one system. In the morning sow thy seed; and in the 
evening let not thy hand forbear; for thou knowest not which 
will. succeed, whether this or that; and should both prosper 
alike, they are good. . 

7 Light is indeed sweet, and it is ; grateful to the eyes to view 
the solar system; yet because, though a man may live many 
years and be delighted in them all, he will still remember that the 

9 days of darkness are many; that all that is coming is vanity; 
rejoice then, O young man, in thy youth, and ‘let thy heart 
cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy 
heart spotless and not by the sight of thine eyes, and know that 

10 for all these things God will bring thee to judgment. There- 
fore remove scart from thy heart and put away evil from thy 
flesh. 


ΟΣ ECCLESIASTES. 


AIK Because youth and thoughtfulness is vanity, therefore 


remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth; before the evil 


2 days come and the years draw nigh in which thou shalt say, I 


have no pleasure in them. So long as the sun and. the light 
and the moon and the stars are not involved in darkness, the 


3 clouds will return after rain. When once the guards of the 


house are shaken, and the men of valour put to flight, and the 


4 grinding maids are idle, because reduced to a few, then shall 


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κὰ 


the maids who look out at the windows be darkened, and 
the doors of the market place will be shut at the feebleness of 
the voice of the grinding maid, which will be raised to the 
plaintive tone of the young ostrich; and all the daughters of 
the song will be brought low; and they will look up to the 
height and there are terrors in the, way. Though the almond 
tree shall have bloomed and the locust hath been fattened and 


the caper bush is shed, because the man is gone to his long 


home, therefore the mourners have made a circuit in the mar- 
ket place. Until the silver cord can be wound up no more, 
and the golden bow! be broken, and the bucket broken at the 
well, and the wheel on the well shall run down with it, and 
dust return to dust as it was, and the spirit return to God who 
gave it, vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all things are 
vanity. 

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, because he 
taught mankind wisdom; that the ear might find what is comely 
from parables, the preacher made diligent search to find pleas- 
ing words and a writing of rectitude—words of truth: The 
words of the wise are like goads and nails ready made, which 
have been laid up in repositories from one shepherd to ano- 
ther. What remaineth of them, my son, keep thou. There is 
no end of making many books. And much sty is a Weari- 
ness to the flesh. 

As aconclusion of the discourse, hear thou the whole sum 
and substance. —Fear God and keep his commandments: for 
this conclusion every man should draw, That God will bring 
the whole work into judgment.in every case not taken notice 
of, whether it be good or whethér it be evil. 


Cnet. THE SONG OF SOLOMON. 


ad 


A Song of Songs which is Solomon’s. 

LET him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. 

Because thy breasts are better than wine; and the fragrance 
of thine odours is above all perfumes—Thy name out-poured 
oil, therefore the virgins have loved thee. Thou art drawn: after 
thee we will run to the fragrance of thy perfumes. 

The king brought me into his inner apartment. 

Let us rejoice and be gladdened by thee. We will love thy 


- breasts better than wine: rectitude hath loved thee. 


15 


I am brown but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem; like 
the tents of Kedar—like the curtains of Solomon. Look not on 
me, because I am of a dark complexion—Because the sun hath 
looked upon me. My mother’s children quarrelled with me— 
They made me a keeper in the ir sine Mine own vineyard 
I did not watch. 

Tell me thou whom my soul loveth, where thou tendest 
thy flock—Where thou causest it to rest at noon, perhaps I 
may be like a wanderer among the tents of thy companions. 

If thou wouldst not make thyself known, O fairest of wo- 
men; go out by thyself in the track of the flock; and feed thy 
kids by the shepherds tents. 

To that steed of mine in Pharao’s chariot I have compared 


thee, my love! What! thy cheeks are beautiful as a turtle 


dove’s: and thy neck as strings of pearls. We will make for 
thee suitable figures of gold with spangles of silver. 

While. the ΠΝ was at_his banquet, my spikenard sent 
forth its odour. My dear brother i is to me a nosegay of stacte: 
it shall be lodged in my bosom. My dear brother is to me a 
cluster of the cypress, in the vineyards of Engaddi. | 

Behold thou art fair, my love; behold thou art fair. Thine 


~ eyes are doves. 


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Behold thou art comely, my ὅδαν brother—beautiful in- 
deed! Near our bed thou wast shaded. 

The beams of our houses are cedar. Cypress our vaulted 
cielings. , 

I ama flower of the fieldy-and a lilly of the vallies. 

As alilly among thorns, so is my consort among the daugh- 
ters. ᾿ 
ο΄ Ἀβίβεοϊίτοη treeamong thetrees of the forests; so ismy dear 


Ch. III. SOLOMON’S SONG. 


brother among the youths. In its shade I took great delight and 

4 sat, and its fruit was sweet to my taste. O conduct me to the 

5 house of wine, and order for me what I love. Strengthen with 
perfumes—strew around me citrons, for I am wounded with 

6 love. Let his left hand be under my head, and his right em- 
brace me! 

7 I have adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the 
powers and virtues of the field, that you stir not up nor awake 
my love till she please. 

8 If. IT isthe voice of my dear brother! lo he cometh, bounding 
over the mountains—skipping over the hills. My dear brother 

9 is like a roe; or a young hart on the mountains of Baithor. Lo! 
he ‘is behind our wall, looking in at the windows, taking a 

10 near view through the lattice. My dear brother addressing me 
saith, ‘‘ Arise my love, my fair one, my dove! For lo! the win- 

11 ter is past—the rain is over: is gone. The flowers appear on 

12 the earth—the pruning season is come. The voice of the tur- 

13 tle is heard in our land. The fig tree hath put forth its green 
figs: the vines are in bloom—they have shed a fragrance. 

14 Arise, come my beloved, my fair one, my dove. Yes, come 
thou dove of mine: in the shelter of the rock near the wall. 
Shew me thy face and let me hear thy voice: for thy voice is 
sweet and thy countenance comely.” 

15 Catch for us the little foxes, that spoil vines: for our vines 

16 are in blossom. My dear brother is mine and I am his: he is 

17 feeding among the lillies. Till the day blow fresh and the 
shades be removed. Return—Be, O my dear brother, like a 
roe, or a young hart on the caverned mountains. 

Il. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loved. 
I sought him but did not find him. I called him but he made 

2 me no answer. I will rise now and take a circuit in the city— 
in the places of publick resort and in the streets; and seek him 
whom my soul loveth. I sought him but did not find him. 

3 The watchmen who take their rounds in the city, met me. 

4 Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? It was but a little while 
after I parted from them, till I found him whom my soul lov- 
eth. I took hold of him and did not let him go till I brought him 
to my mother’s house and into the chambers of her who con- 


Ch. IV. SOLOMON’S SONG. 


5 ceived me. I charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem by the 


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powers and virtues of the field, not to stir up nor awake τὰν 
love till he please. 


Ill. WHAT is this coming up from the wilderness ; like a 
column of smoke, fuming with myrrh and incense made of all 
the perfumer’s powders ? 

It is the palanquin of Solomon, three score chiefs of the 
chiefs of Israel are around it. All swordsmen expert in war. 
Every man with his sword on his thigh, for fear of danger by 
night. King Solomon had made himself a palanquin of the 
wood of Libanus. Its columns he made of silver, and his sofa 
was of gold. Its canopy was purple, and its inside carpeted 
with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 

O daughter of Sion go forth and view king Solomon; in 
the crown with which his mother crowned him; on the day 
of his espousals— 

Even on the day of the gladness of his heart. Behold, 
thou art fair, my love! Behold thou art fair! Thine eyes are 
doves, now thy veil is removed! thy hair is like the flocks of 
goats which are seen from mount Galaad: thy teeth like the 
flocks of shorn sheep; which have just come up from the wash- 
ing pool: they are all twins and there is not one defective 
among them. Thy lips are like a braid of scarlet and thy speech 
is graceful: as the skin of a pomegranate, so are thy cheeks, 
now thy veil is removed. Thy neck is like the tower of Da- 
vid, which was built for an armoury: on it are hung a thou- 
sand shields; all the javelins of the worthies. Thy two breasts 
are like two twin fawns of aroe; which are browzing among - 
lillies. Till the day breeze spring up and the shades are re-- 
moved, I will go by myself to the mountain of myrrh, and to 
the hill of frankincense. Thou art altogether fair, my love; 
and there is no blemish in thee. | 


IV. COME from rise my spouse; come from Liba- — 
nus. Thou canst come, yes come safely from the top of Pis- 
tis—from the summit of Sanir and Hermon—from lions dens, ° 
from the leopards mountains. Thou hast ravished my heart, 
my sister spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with a glance 


Chi V. SOLOMON’S SONG. 


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of thine eyes—with an endearing turn of thy neck. How beau- 
tiful are thy breasts, my sister spouse! how much more pleas- 
ing than wine are thy breasts! and the smell of thy garments, 
than all spices! thy lips, my spouse, drop as a honey comb: 
honey and milk flow from thy tongue: and the fragrance of 
thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. Thou art an en- 
closed garden, my sister spouse: a close shut garden; a sealed 
fountain. Thy productions are a paradise of pomegranates 
with delicious fruits ; aromatic plants with the varieties of bal- 
sams—spikenard and saffron, sweet cane and cinnamon; with 
all kinds of trees of incense—myrrh, aloth with all the prin- 
cipal spices. A garden fountain and a well of living water, 
flowing with gentle murmurs from Libanus. 

Awake O north wind, come also, O south wind and blow 
gently through my garden, and let my aromatic spices flow. 
Let my dear brother come down to his garden; and taste the 
delicious fruits thereof. 

I have come to my garden, my sister spouse: I have ga- 
thered my myrrh with my spices: I have eaten my bread with 
my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O 
friends ; drink—yes drink plentifully O brethren. 


V. ISLEEP; but my heart is awake. ‘The voice of my 
dear brother! he knocketh at the door! ‘Open to me, my 
sister, my dove, my consecrated one! for my head is filled 
with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.” I have 
put off my garment; how can I put it on? I have washed 
my feet ; how can I defile them? My dear brother withdrew 
his hand from the hole in the door. Whereupon my bow- 
els yearned for him. I rose to open for my dear brother ; my 
hands dropped myrrh ; and my fingers myrrh plenteously 
on the handles of the bar. I opened for my dear brother. 
He was gone! my soul melted for the speech of him. 1 sought 
him but did not find him: I called him but he made me no 
answer. ‘They who go the rounds in the city met me. They 
smote me—they wounded me. The keepers of the walls took 
my veil from me. I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem 
by the powers and virtues of the field. If you found my dear 
brother— What should you tell him? Tell him that I am sick 
of love. — 


Ch. VI. SOLOMON’S SONG. 


9 ‘What is thy dear brother more than another brother, O 
fairest of women? What is thy dear brother more than ano- 
ther brother, that thou hast thus adjured us ?”’ 

11 My dear brother is white and ruddy, he is the chiefest 
among tens of thousands. His head is gold of Kephas; his 
12 flowing locks black as a raven. His eyes are like doves by 
13 streams of water—milk white doves sitting by streams. His 
cheeks are like beds of spices emitting perfumes ; his lips are 
14 lillies distilling myrrh plenteously. His hands are of gold, finely 
turned, beset with chrysolites: his body, an ivory cabinet on 
15 asapphire stone: his legs, pillars of marble fixed on pedestals 
of gold: his countenance like Libanus, majestic as the cedars: 
16 his mouth is sweetness itself. He is altogether lovely. Such is 
my dear brother, and such my love, O daughters of Jerusalem. 
VI. ‘*Where did thy dear brother go, O fairest of women? 
Whither did thy dear brother bend his course; that we may 
seek him with thee?” 

2 My dear brother went down to his garden to the beds of 

3 spices; to feed in the garden and to gather lillies. Iam my dear 
brother’s and he is mine; he is feeding among the lillies! 

A. Thou my consort, art beautiful as Terzah; comely as Jeru- 

5 salem; dazzling as embattled hosts! Turn thine eyes aside 
from me for they have transported me. Thy hair is like a flock 

6 of goats which are seen on mount Galaad: thy teeth like 
flocks of shorn sheep, just come up from washing: all twins 
and there is not one defective among them: thy lips are like a 

7 braid of scarlet, and thy speech is graceful. Thy cheek is like 
the downy skin of a pomegranate now thy veil is removed. 

8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins 

9 without number: one is my dove, my consecrated one. One is 
her mother’s only child—the darling of her who bore her. 
Daughters viewed her—nay queens and even concubines will 

10 hail her happy and thus extoll her. ‘“‘ Who is she that is look- 
ing out like the morning; fair as the moon, distinguishable as 
the sun, and dazzling as embattled hosts.”’ | 


VI. 11 IWENT down to the garden of nuts to look at the 
productions of the valley: to seek whether the yine had bud- 


Ch. VII. VII. SOLOMON’S SONG. 


12 ded or the pomegranate blossomed: I am there to grant thee 
my breasts. My soul did not recollect this. It made me like 
the chariots of Aminadab. 

13 Return, return, O Sunamite! return, return that we may 
see thee! , 

~ What would you see in the Sunamite, who is coming like 
the moving bands of an army? 

VII. How beautiful were thy steps in thy sandals, O daugh- 

ter of Nadab? The infoldings of thy loins are like jewellery, the 

work of an artist: thy clasp is a well turned goblet, not desti- 
tute of mingled wine: thy body is like a heap of wheat encom- 

3 passed about with lillies: thy two breasts are like two twin 

fawns of a roe; thy neck is like a tower of ivory. Thine eyes 

like the pools at Esebon by the gates of the daughter of many: 
thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon‘which looketh towards 

5 Damascus: thy head is like Carmcl and the tresses of thy head 

like Purpura. 
The king is detained in the antichamber! 

6 ον beautiful thou art! and how swect! O my love! how 

7 delightful! In respect to thy stateliness, thou hast been com- 

pared to the palm tree, and thy breasts to its clusters. I said, 

8 I will climb the palm tree—I will clasp its topmost boughs; 

and thy breasts shall be now like the clusters of the vine; and 
the smell of thy nose like citrons; and the roof of thy mouth 
like choice wine— 

9 Which is poured out rightly for my dear brother properly 
10 adapted with my lips and my teeth. Iam my dear brother’s; 
11 and towards me is his desire. Come, my dear brother, let us 
12 go out to the fields. Let us lodge in the villages: let us get up 

early to the vineyards: Jet us see whether the vine is budded: 
whether the young grape has made its appearance: whether the 
pomegranates are in blossom. There I will grant thee my 

13 breasts. The mandrakes have shed a fragrance: and in our 
hoards are all manner of delicious fruits, newly gathered as 
well as old. For thee, my dear brother I have kept them. O 

VIII. that thou, my dear brother, hadst sucked the breasts of 
my mother; meeting thee abroad 1 could kiss thee and not be 

2 despised; I could take thee and conduct thee to my mother’s 

house; and to the inmost apartment of her who conceived me, 
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I could cause thee to drink spiced wine of the juice of my po- 
megranates; his left hand might be under my head and his 
right embrace me. 

I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the pow- 
ers and virtues of the field; that you stir not up nor awake my 
love till she please. 


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her beloved? 

Under a citron tree I awaked thee. It was there thy mother 
bare thee. There she who brought thee forth suffered the pangs 
of childbirth. 

O set me as a seal on thy heart—as a seal on thine arm: for 
love is strong as death; jealousy inflexible as Hades: its wings 
are wings of fire—its flames— 

Much water cannot quench love; nor can floods drown it. 
Though a man give all his substance for love, he may be tho- 
roughly despised. 

Our sister is little and hath no breasts. What can we do 
for our sister on the day when she shall be demanded in mar- 
riage. If she be a wall we will build on her silver turrets, and if 
she be a door we will line her with boards of cedar. 

I am a wall and my breasts are turrets. I was in their view 
as one who had found favour. Solomon hada vineyard at Bee- 
lamon, he let this vineyard of his to tenants, a man is_ to give 
him a thousand pieces of silver for its fruit. My vineyard which 
is before me shall continue to be mine. Solomon shall have the 
thousand pieces of silver, and they who take care of its fruits, 
two hundred. ' 

Thou who art sitting in the gardens, companions are wait- 
ing thy voice. Let me hear it— 

Away, my dear brother, and be like a roe; or a young hart 
on the mountains of spices. 


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I. A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw, (which he saw 
respecting Judea and Jerusalem) in the reign of Oxias, and Joa- 
tham and Achaz and Hezekias, who reigned over Judea. 

HEARKEN, O heaven! and hear O earth! what the Lord 
hath spoken. 

“1 have begotten children and brought them up; and 
they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, 
and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel did not know me. 
And this people have not regarded me.” 

Ah! sinful nation—people full of sins! vile race! iniquitous 
children! you have utterly forsaken the Lord; and provoked to 
wrath the Holy One of Israel. What! must you persisting in ini- 
quity be smitten still more? The whole head is sick, and the 
whole heart faint: from the feet to the head, there isno soundness 
therein. Isit not, here a wound, there a bruise, there a putrefying 
sore? there is no applying poultice, nor oil, nor bandages. Your 
land is a desert: your cities are burnt with fire. As for yourcoun- 
try, before your eyes strangers are devouring it; and it is laid 
waste, bemg subdued by foreign tribes. Must the daughter 
of Sion be left as a shed ina vineyard: andas a lodge in a gar- 
den of cucumbers—as a city taken by siege? Had not the Lord. 
of Hosts left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and. 
made like Gomorra. Hear a word of the Lord, O chiefs of 
Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra! 

“What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the 


‘Lord: Tam cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the 


fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats Ihave no delight; 
nor should you come to appear before me: for who hath re- 
quired these at your hands? You ‘shall no more be admitted to 
tread my court. Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain in- 
cense—it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and 
sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: your fasting and cessa- 
tion from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my 
soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer 
remit your sins. When you stretch forth your hands, I will 
turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, 
I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood. 
Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; 
in-my presence, cease from your evil deeds; learn to do good; 


Ch. IL. ESATAS. 


17 seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer jus- 
tice to the’ orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: then | 
18 come—(let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord) 
and though your sins be asa purple stain; J will make you 
white as snow—though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make 
19 you white as wool. If you indeed be willing and will hearken 
20 tome, you shail eat the good things of the land: but if you re- - 
fuse and hearken not to me, the sword shall devour you; for , 
the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words.” 
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot? Sion that was full 
of justice! In it righteousness made its abode; but now murder- 
22 ers. Your silver is not pure: thy vintners mix the wine with 
23 water. The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they 
love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do notadminister 
24 justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend. There- 
fore thus saith the sovereign Lord of hosts. 
“¢ Alas for the rulers of Israel! for my wrath against these 
adversaries shall not abate. On these enemies of mine I will . 
25 execute judgment: and I will bring my hand over thee, and 
purify thee with fire. Them who are disobedient I will destroy: 
26 and I will take away from thee all transgressors, and establish 
thy judges as at the first: and thy counsellors as at the begin- 
ning: and after these things thou shalt be called The city of 
27 Righteousness, The faithful metropolis, Sion. For in the exer- 
28 cise of judgment her captivity shall be saved: and in the exer- 
cise of mercy, the lawless and sinful shall be crushed together; 
and they who have forsaken the Lord shall be utterly destroyed: 
29 for they shall be exposed to shame for the idols on which they 
doted; as they have been for the gardens which they desired. 
30 For they shall belikeanilex, which hath shed its leaves; and like 
31 a garden which hath no water: and their strength shall be like 
tow; and their works like sparks of fire: and the lawless and sin- 
ful shall be burned up together; and there shall be no extin- 
, guisher.”’ 


Il. Il. 7116 word which came to Esaias, son of Amos concern- 
ing Judea and concerning Jerusalem. 
2 BECAUSE in the last days, the mount of the Lord will 
be conspicuous; and the house of God will be on the top 


Ch. I. ESAIAS. 


of mountains; and exalted above the hills: therefore all the 

3 nations will come to it. Many nations indeed, will go saying, 

‘* Come, let us go up to the mount of the Lord; and to 

the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his way, 
and we will walk therein.” 

For from Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the 

4 Lord from Jerusalem. And he will judge among the nations; 

and work conviction in many a people: and they shall beat 

their swords into plough shares; and their spears into prun- 
ing hooks: and nation shall not lift up a sword against nation ; 
nor shall they learn war any more. 
Now therefore, O house of Jacob; come, let us walk in 
6 the light of the Lord. For he hath forgiven his people, the 
house of Israel. 
(J) ‘‘ Because their land was filled as at first with divina- 
tions ; like that of the Philistines and many strange children 
7 were born to them—for their country was filled with silver 
and gold, and there was no counting their treasures; and their 
land was filled with horses, and there was no end to their cha- 
8 riots; and the land was filled with abominations, the work- 
manship of their own hands; and they worshipped the things 
9 which their fingers had made, and the commoner bowed down 
and the noble humbled himself; therefore I will not forgive 
them.”— 

10 ‘‘ Now therefore go into the rocks and hide yourselves in 
the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord; and from 
the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise, to crush the land.”’ 

Il “For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and 
the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord 

12 alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of 
hosts is against every scorner and haughty man ; and against 

13 every one high and lofty, and they shall be humbled: even. 
against every of those high towering cedars of Lebanon ; and 

14 against every oak of Basan; and against every lofty mountain; 

15 and against every hill that is high ; and against every stately 

16 tower; and against every high raised wall; and against every 
ship of the sea ; and against every ensign of beauteous ships : 


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and every man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of 
these men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in 
that day. Then will they hide all these handiworks, carrying 
them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves 
of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush 
the lands. For on that day men will cast to the bats their abo- | 
minations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship 
vanities ; that they may go into holes of the flinty rock—nay 
into the very clefts of the rock, from the tremendous pre- 
sence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when 
he shall arise to crush the land. 

Behold now the Sovereign Lord of hosts will remove, 
from Jerusalem and from Judea, all stay and support of every 
kind—the stay of bread and the stay of water; the giant and 
mighty man and warrior ; judge and prophet ; instructor and 
elder ; the captain of fifty, and honourable counsellor ; the 
skilful architect and intelligent scholar: and I will make boys 
their princes ; and scorners shall rule over them. And upon 
one another the people will fall foul, and justle every man 
against his neighbour—the boy against the elder and the base 
against the honourable. 

Because a man will take hold of his brother, or the head 
of the house of his father, saying, ‘Thou hast clothing be thou 
our leader, and let me be supplied with food under thee.” 
‘¢ Therefore on that day he will answer and say, I will not be 
thy leader, for in my house there is neither bread nor raiment, 
I will not be the leader of this people.” 

Because Jerusalem is forsaken and Judea is fallen there- 
fore their tongues concur with their transgression. They dis- 
believe the things relating to the Lord. Because their glory is 
now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up 
against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they 
proclaimed and openly avowed. Alas for their souls ! because 
they have counselled an evil counsel against themselves, say- 
ing, ‘‘ Let us bind the just one, for he is disagreeable to us;”’ 
let them therefore eat the fruits of their deeds. Alas for the 
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him. O my people ! your task masters glean you; and exactors 
tyrannize over you. O my people! They who call you happy lead 
youastray; and disturb the path of your feet. But the Lord will now 
arise to plead his cause; and he will arraign his people. ‘The Lord. 
will himself come to a trial with the elders of the people and 
with their chiefs: ‘““Why have you burned up my vineyard? 
And why is the plunder of the poor in your houses? Why do 
you injure my people; and cover with shame the face of the 
poor. | 

Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are 
haughty and have walked with outstretched neck and wanton 
eyes, trailing with them in their gait flowing robes, and mov- 
ing in set pace with their feet; therefore God will humble the 
princely daughters of Sion and the Lord will expose their form 
to view. On that day the Lord will take away the finery of their 
attire, the cauls and the curls and the crescents, the solitaire 
and the ornament of the brow, and the gorgeous wreathed tiar, 
and the necklaces and the bracelets, and the zone and the 
rings for the fingers, and the ornaments for the right arms, 
and the ear-rings and the robes with purple borders, and those 
the middle of which is purple, and the dresses worn at home, 
and the Laconian gauzes and cotton robes, and those of purple 
and scarlet and cotton, embroidered with gold and purple; and 
the summer sophas: and instead of perfumes there shall be 
ashes; and instead of a girdle thou shalt be girded with rushes; 
and instead of a golden head-dress thou shalt have baldness, 
on the account of thy doings; and instead of the purple robe 
thou shalt gird on sackcloth. And thy son the most beautiful 
whom thou lovest shall fall by the sword; and your mighty 
men shall fall by the sword and be laid low; and your ward- 
robes shall mourn; and thou shalt be left solitary and shalt sit 

on the ground; and seven women shall lay hold on one 
man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own 
raiment, let us only be called by thy name: take thou away 
our reproach.” 

“ But in that day God will with glorious counsel shine on 
the land, to exalt and dignify the remnant of Israel. And it 
shall come to pass that what is left m Sion, and what is left in 
Jerusalem shall be called Holy. Namely all who are enrolled 


Chien. ESAIAS. 


4 for life in Jerusalem. Because the Lord will wash away the 
filth of the sons and the daughters of Sion, and cleanse the 
blood entirely from among them; by a spirit of judgment and 

5 a spirit of burning; therefore when he shall come, every part 
of Sion and all around it shall be overshadowed by day with 
a cloud as of smoke, and by night with that of the light of 

6 blazing fire; and with all this glory it shall be covered; and 
this will be a shade from heat, and it shall be ina shelter and 
covert from storm and rain.’’ 

V. ILL. Let me sing for the Beloved, a song of my Beloved to his 
vineyard. 
THE beloved had a vineyard on a mountain in a rich soil, 

2 “and I hedged it around and trenched it; and planted it with 
the vine of Sorek; and in the midst of it built a tower, and 
hewed out therein a wine lake; and waited for its producing 
grapes, and it produced poisonous berries. 

8 ‘* Now therefore, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of 

4 Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. What more could 
I do for my vineyard that I have not done for it? Because I 
expected that it would produce grapes, and it hath produced 

5 poisonous berries; now therefore I will tell you, what I pur- 
pose to do with my vineyard; I will take away the hedge there- 
of, and it shall be exposed to plunder; and I will demolish its 

6 wall, and it shall be for a common walk; and I will abandon 
my vineyard that it may neither be pruned nor digged; and 
brambles shall overrun it as a waste; and I will give a charge 

7 to the clouds not to shed rain upon it. For the vineyard of the 
Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel; and the men of Juda his 
beloved plant. I waited for their executing justice, but they 
committed injustice, and promoted not righteousness, but an 
outcry. 

8 Woe unto them who join house to house, and who are 
bringing field nearer to field, that they may take something 

9 from their neighbour. Are you alone to dwell in the land? For 
these things have come to the ears of the Lord of Hosts. For 
though there be many houses they shall be for desolation— 
though great and fair, there shall be no inhabitants therein. 

10 For the ground worked by ten yoke of oxen will not yield a 
ball of wine; and he who soweth six measures shall not raise 
three. 


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Woe to them, who rise early to follow strong drink, and 
continue at it till late at night; for the wine will inflame them. 
For with kithara and psaltery, tabors and pipes, they drink 
wine; but they regard not the works of the Lord, nor consider 
the operations of his hands. Therefore my people are become 
captives, because they did not know the Lord; and multitudes 
have died of famine and thirst; and Hades hath enlarged its 
appetite, and opened its mouth, that there may be no want of 
room; and down shall go the honourable and the great, and 
the rich and the pestilent men of the land. The commoner shall 
be humbled; and the noble dishonoured ; and the lofty eyes 
shall be brought down ; and the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted 
in judgment; and God, the Holy One, shall be glorified by righ- 
teousness ; and they who have been plundered shall be fed like 
bulls, and lambs shall graze the waste places of them who have 
been removed. | 

Woe unto them who draw out sins as for a long cable ; and 
iniquities as for an ox chain: who say, “Let what he is to do 
approach speedily that we may see ; and let the counsel of the 
Holy One of Israel come that we may know it.” 

Woe to them who call evil good ; and good evil—who put 
darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for 
sweet ; and sweet for bitter. 

- Woe to them who are wise in their own conceit, and in 
their own eyes prudent. 

_ Woeto your mighty menwho drink wine; and to your prin- 
ces who mingle strong drink: who justify the wicked for re- 
wards; and deprive the just of his right. For this cause, as 
stubble will be set on fire by a coal, and consumed by a ne- 
glected flame; their root shall be like touch wood, and their 
blossom shall ascend like dust: for they desired not the law of 
the Lord of Hosts: but provoked to wrath the manifestation of 
the Holy One of Israel. Wherefore the Lord of Hosts was in- 
censed against his people, and he stretched out his hand against 
them and smote them: and the mountains were convulsed, and 
their carcasses were as dung in the high way: and for all this 
his anger was not turned away; but still his hand is high. 
Therefore he will erect a standard among the nations far off, 


and summon them from the extremity of the earth: and be- 
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27 hold! with speed they are coming swiftly. They will not hun- 
ger, nor will they be weary: they will not slumber, nor lie 
down to sleep; nor shall their girdles be loosed from their 

28 loins, nor the latchets of their sandals broken. Their arrows 
are sharp; and their bows are bent: the hoofs*of their horses 
have been accounted as flint, and the wheels of their chariots 

29 are like a whirlwind. They growl like lions, and are at hand 
like young lions. He will seize and roar like a wild beast and 
drive out the people, and there shall be none to deliver them. 

30 On that day he will roar against them like the roaring of the 
billowy sea; and they will look upwards to the heaven and down 
on the earth; and lo! distressful darkness in their tribulation. 


A solemn Vision. 
VI. IV. IN the year in which Ozias the king died I saw the 

Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the house was filled 

2 with his glory. And seraphs stood around him, each having six 

wings; and with two they covered the face, and with two they 

8. covered the feet, and two they used in flying. And they cried 
one to another and said, 

“* Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is 
filled with his glory.” : 

And the lintel of the door was shaken with the sound of their 
cry, and the house was filled with smoke. Whereupon I said, 
Ah! woe is me! (for 1 was confounded) for being a man, and 
having unclean lips; and dwelling among a people of unclean 

6 lips, I have seen with mine eyes the king the Lord of Hosts. 

Then one of the seraphs was sént to me and he had in his hand 

7 a live coal which he had taken from the altar with the tongs. 

And having touched my lips he said, Behold this hath touch- 

8 ed thy lips, and it will take away thine iniquities and purge away 

thy sins. Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom 

9 shall I send? And who will go to this people? And I said, Be- 

hold, here am I: send me. And he said, 

Go and say to this people; hearing you shall hear, though 

you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you 

10 may not perceive: for the heart of this people is stupefied; and 

their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, 
that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with 


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their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I 
may heal them. 
il Whereupon I said, For how long? O Lord! And he said, 
Until cities be wasted so as not to be habitable; and houses, 
so that there be no men; and the land be left utterly desolate: 
12 And after this God will remove the men far away. 
They indeed who are left in the land shall be multiplied; 
13 for still about the tenth is in it; and shall again be for a prey, 
and be like the ilex and like the oak when it hath fallen from its 
station. 


Vl. V. IN the days of Achaz the son of Joatham, the son of 
Ozias king of Judah, Rasin king of Aram and Phakee son of 
Romelias king of Israel came up against Jerusalem‘to war 
against it, but could not lay close siege to it. When the house 
of David was informed that Aram had confederated with 
Ephraim, the heart of the king and the heart of his people was 
3 moved, as a tree in the forest is shaken by the wind. Whereup- 
on the Lord said to Esaias, Go out and meet Achaz, thou and 
4 Forsaken-jasub thy son, at the pool on the upper road to the 
fuller’s field, and thou shalt say to him, 

Take heed and be quiet; be not terrified, nor let thy soul 
be dismayed on the account of these two smoaking firebrands: 
for when my fierce wrath is come I will again heal. 

5 And as for the son of Aram and the son of Romelias; be- 

6 cause they have taken evil counsel, saying, Let us go up to 

Judea and confer with the people and bring them into our 

7 measures; and let us make the son of T'abeel king over it, thus 

saith the Lord of hosts. This counsel shall not stand; nor shall 

8 it take effect. But the head of Aram shall be Damascus, and the 

head of Damascus, Rasin—but further, in three score and five 

years, the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people, 

9 though Somoron is the head of Ephraim, and the son of Rome- 

lias, the head of Somoron, yes though you may not believe — 
nor understand. 

10 Moreover the Lord proceeded to speak to Achaz saying, 

11 “Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God in: the depth or in 

12 the height.” And Achaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I try 

13 the Lord.” Thereupon he said, Hear now, O house of David, 


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Is it a small matter for you to contend with men? How is it 
then that you contend with the Lord? Therefore the Lord him- 
self will give you a sign. 

Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and he 
shall be called Emm anvet. 

Doth this child,* before it hath known to chuse good in pre- 
ference to evil, eat butter and honey, because previous to its 
knowing good or evil it disobeyeth evil to make choice of 
good? ‘The land indeed which thou fearest on account of these 
two kings shall be relinquished; but God will bring upon thee 
and upon thy people and upon the house of thy father days 
which have not yet come. From the day he hath taken Ephra- 
im from Juda [he will bring] the king of the Assyrians. It 
shall come to pass that at that time the Lord will utter a call 
to the flies—to that part of them which rule over the river of 
Egypt; and to the bee which is in the country of the Assyri- 
ans; and, they shall all come into the vallies of this country; and 
into the holes of the rocks; and into the caves and into every 
cleft. On that day the Lord will shave with that razor—with 
that which was hired on the bank of the river—with that of the - 
king of the Assyrians, the head and the hair of the feet: and 


1 take off the beard. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a 


man will keep a young cow and two sheep; and by reason of 
the abundance he will drink milk—butter and honey will be 
eaten by every one left in the land. And it shall come to pass 
in that day every where, though there may be a thousand vine- 
yards, each valued at a thousand shekels income: they shall be 
for briars and thorns. With bows and arrows men will resort 
thither. Because the whole country shall be a waste of briars 
and thorns, therefore every mountain which hath been plough- 
ed will be ploughed, wherever terror could not come; for by 
reason of the country’s being a waste of briars and thorns, it 
shall be a pasture for sheep and a range for the ox. 


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new rolland write thereon with a man’s pen “Speed quickly to 

the plunder of the spoil,” for it is at hand. And let faithful men, 

Ourias and Zacharias son of Barachias be witnesses for me. 
Now I had approached to the prophetess and she had con- 


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ceived and when she brought forth a son, the Lord said to me, 
Call his name ‘‘Speed to the spoil—haste to the prey’? for be- 
fore this child shall know to pronounce father or mother, the 
van of the king of Assyria will take the army of Damascus and 
the spoils of Samaria. 

Again the Lord spoke yet further te me saying, Because 
this people reject the water of Siloam which floweth gently and 
chuse to have Rasin and the son of Romelias to rule over them; 
therefore behold the Lord will bring upon you the water of the 
river which is strong and abundant—even the king of Assyria 
and his glory; and he will rise over all your channels, and over- 
flow all your banks; and sweep away from Judea every man 
who can raise his head, or is capable of executing any thing. 
And thé circuit of his camp shall be such as to fill the breadth 
of thy country, O Emmanuel. Know this, O nations, and be 
struck with consternation. Hearken ye who are in the remot- 
est parts of the earth; be struck with consternation ye who have 
made yourselves strong; for though you should again become 
strong; with consternation you shall again be stricken, and what 
counsel soever you may take, the Lord will defeat it; and what 
word soever you may speak shall not take effect among you; 
because God is with us: 

Thus saith the Lord with the strong hand, to them who 
refuse to walk in the way of this people saying, Perhaps they 
may order what is hard—(for whatever this people order is 
hard. ) 

Be not ye terrified with the fear of them, nor dismayed; hal- 
low the Lord himself, and let him be thy fear: for if thou hast put 
trust in him he will be to thee a sanctuary, and you shall not run 
against a stumbling stone, nor as under a falling rock. But as 
for the houses of Jacob, they are in a trap, and the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem are in a pit: for this cause many among them shall 
be weak and fall and be trodden down and men will safely ap- 
proach and take them. Then shall they be manifest who seai 
up the law that it may not be learned. ‘Then will one say, “ἢ 
will wait for God, who hath turned away his face from the 
house of Jacob; and I will trust in him. Here am [and the 
children whom God hath given me.” 

Now when there shall be signs and wonders in the house 
of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth on Mount 


Ch. 


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Sion; if they should say to you, ‘‘Apply to the belly speakers, 
and to them who cause a voice to proceed from the ground.”’ 
Those vain babblers who speak from the belly : should not 
anation apply to their God? Why consult they the dead con- 
cerning the living? For he hath given a law for assistance ; 
that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is 
not worth the giving of gifts for it. Upon you indeed there 
shall come a grievous famine ; and it shall come to pass that 
when you are hungry, you will fret and curse the ruler and 
the customs of your country. And they will look up to the 
heaven above, then down on the earth beneath, and lo distress 


~ and darkness! tribulation and anguish and a gloom so as not 


IX. 


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to see! But he who is in distress for ἃ season shall not 
be abandoned to despair. Drink this first; do it quickly. With 
regard to the region of Zabulon, the land of Nephthaleim and 
the rest who inhabit the sea shore, and the banks of the Jor- 
dan, Galilee of the nations ; ye people who walk in darkness, 
behold ! a great light! and ye who dwell in a region, the 
shade of death, on you a light shall shine. 

With regard to the bulk of the people, whom thou hast 
brought back in thy joy, they shall rejoice in thy presence, 
like them who rejoice in harvest, and like them who are di- 
viding spoils; because the yoke which lay upon them, is taken 
away, and the rod which was over their neck. For he hath 
broken the rod of the exactor, as in the day of Madiam : for, 
with a renewal of friendship, they shall make compensation 
for every robe collected by deceit, and for every garment ; 
and shall be willing to do so, if they were burned with fire : 
because for us a child is born, and to us a son is given, whose 
government is on his own shoulder ; and his name is called, 
“© The Messenger of Great Counsel.” For I will bring peace 
on the rulers and health for him. His government shall be 
ereat and to his peace there is no boundary, on the throne 
of David and over his kingdom, to re-establish it, and support 
it with judgment and justice, henceforth and forever. ‘The zeal 
of the Lord of hosts will do this. 

VI. 8 THE LORD hath sent death against Jacob; and it hath 
come upon Israel. And all the people of Ephraim shall know 
it, and all the inhabitants of Samaria, who with haughtiness 


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and a lofty heart say, “* The bricks are fallen; but come, kt 
us hew stones and let us ont down sycamines and cedars and 
build for ourselves a tower.’ 

Though God will dash down them, who rise up against 
him on mount Sion; and disperse his enemies—Syria in the 
east, and the Greeks in the west, who are devouring Israel 
with open mouth; for all this his anger is not turned away, but 
still his hand is lifted high. 

The people did not turn till they were smitten; as they 
indeed did not seek the Lord; therefore the Lord cut off from 
Israel, head and tail, great and little in one day—the aged and 
the honourable, this was the head; and the prophet who teach- 
eth falsehood, he is the tail. Still there will be deceivers, who 
will call this people happy, and lead them astray, that they may 
devour them; therefore the Lord will have no pleasure in 
their young men ; and on their orphans and _ their widows he 
will have no compassion ; because they are all wicked and 
regardless of law, and every mouth speaketh perversely. For 
all this his wrath is not turned away but still his hand is lift- 
ed high.— 

Still iniquity will burn like a fire, and like dry stubble it 
shall be consumed by fire. It shall burn in the thickets of the 
forest, and consume all on the hills around. By reason of the 
fierce anger of the Lord the whole country is ina flame; and _ 
the people shall be as fuel for the fire. A man will have no 
pity for his brother, but will turn to the right because he is 
hungry, and devour on the left, but shall not be satisfied. Man 
is devouring the flesh of his brother’s arm; for Manasses is 
devouring Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasses; for they will 
both together besiege Juda. 

For all this his anger is not turned away; but still his mand 
is lifted high. 

Wo to them who write wickedness! For writers are 
writing wickedness; turning aside the cause of the distressed; 
robbing the poor of my people, of their right; that the widow 
may be their prey and the orphan, their spoil: what then shall 
they do in the day of visitation? For tribulation shall come 
upon you from afar; and to whom can you flee for succour? 


Ch. X. ESAIAS. 


4 And where will you leave your glory, that you may not fall into 
the captive band? | 
For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand 


is lifted high. 
5 Ho! Assyrians ! 
6 The rod of my wrath, even mine anger is in their hands, I 


will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order 
this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to 
7 trample down cities and lay them in the dust. But he did not 
harbour such thoughts; nor did he reason thus in his mind; 
but his mind will prompt him to destroy nations not a few. 
8 Even though they should say to him, Thou alone art chief. 
9 He indeed will say, 
‘* Have I not taken the whole country above Babylon and 
Chalene, where the tower had been builded? Nay have I not 
10'taken Arabia and Damascus and Samaria? In the same man- 
ner as | have taken these; so will I take all the governments. 

11 Howl ye graven images in Jerusalem and in Samaria; for as I 
have done to Samaria and her images, so will 1 do to Jerusa- 
lem and her idols.” 

10 But it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath accom- 
plished his whole work on mount Sion and Jerusalem; that I 
will cast a look on the stout heart—on the chief ruler of the 
Assyrians, and on the loftiness of the glory of his eyes. 

13 For he said, ‘‘ With this power I will perform exploits; 
and by the wisdom of mine understanding I will remove the 

14 boundaries of nations, and make a prey of their strength, and 
shake inhabited cities, and seize with my hand the whole 
world.as anest; and ¢arry off the inhabitants like deserted eggs. 
There is none who can escape me or chirp against me.” 

15 Shall an axe boast without him who cutteth with it; or a 
saw lift itself up, without him who draweth it ; as one could 
lift up a staff or a piece of wood ? No; this shall not be per- 

16 mitted: indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy 

17 honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled: and 
the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and shall hallow him with 
a burning fire, and consume his substance like dry grass.— 

18 On that day there shall be an extinction of the mountains, 
and the hills, and the forests; and it shall consume from the | 


Chi ΧΙ. ESAIAS. 


soul even to the flesh: and he who fleeth shall be like one flee- 
19 ing from blazing fire. And those of them who are left shall be 
20 few in number, so that a child may write them down. And it 
shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel shall 
no more join, nor shall those of Jacob who have escaped, any 
more lean on them who have injured them ; but they will place 
1 their confidence in God the Holy One of Israel, in truth. This 
2 remnant of ‘acob shall indeed be for the Mighty God. Yes: 
though the people of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this rem- 
nant of them shall be saved. He is closing an account and mak- 
23 ing a deduction with saving goodness. Because with the whole 
land the Lord will make a reckoning from which a deduction 

24 hath been made, therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, 

«Ὁ my people who dwell in Sion, be not daunted at the 
Assyrian, because he will smite thee with a rod; for I am 
bringing this stroke upon thee that thou mayst see the way of 

25 Egypt. For yet a little while and mine indignation shall cease ; 

26 and my wrath will be against their counsel; and God will raise 
against them a scourge similar to that of Madiam at the place 
of affliction. 

When his wrath shall be in the western road—in the high 

27 way leading to Egypt; it shall come to pass in that day, that 
his yoke shall be taken from thy shoulder, and the terror of him 
from thee—his yoke shall be utterly destroyed from off thy 

28 shoulders. For he will come to the city Aggai, and pass on to 

29 Mageddo; and at Machmas he will deposit his baggage : then 
he will pass the valley and come to Aggai. Terror will seize 

30 Rama the city of Saul; the daughter of Galleim will flee: he 
will be heard of at Laisa—he will be heard of at Anathoth. 

31 When Madebena hath fainted; then, O mhabitants of Gibbeir, 

52 comfort with the news of his halting a day on his march— 

33 with the hand comfort the mount, the daughter of Sion. And 
as for you, O hills, which are in Jerusalem, behold the sove- 
reign Lord of hosts, with majesty confoundeth the glorious. 
‘fhey who are elated with arrogance shall be crushed ; and the 

lofty shall be brought low; yes, the lofty shall fall by the sword; 
and Libanus shall fall with the lofty. 

ΧΙ. And there shall spring up a shoot from the root of Jessai— 


2. even from that root shall spring up a blooming shoot; and the 
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spirit of God will rest upon him—a spirit of wisdom and un- 
derstanding; a spirit of counsel and majesty ; a spirit of know-. 
ledge and piety—by this spirit he will be filled with the fear 
of God. He will not judge according to opinion, nor will he 
reprove according to report; but he will administer justice to 
the lowly, and work conviction in the meek of the earth, And 
he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and with 
a breath from his lips destroy the wicked. His loins will be 
girded with saving goodness, and his reins clothed with truth. 
And a wolf shall pasture with a lamb; and a leopard shall lie 
down with a kid; and the calf, and bull and lion shall pasture 
together, and a little child shall tend them. The cow and bear 
shall feed together ; and together their young shall herd; and 
the lion shall eat chaff like an ox. And the sucking child shall 
lay its hand on the holes of asps and on the bed of young asps. 
And they shall not hurt nor have power to destroy any one on 
the mountain which is my sanctuary. Because the whole earth 
is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as abundant water 
covereth depths of seas; therefore there shall be in that day, 
the root of Jesse, even he who riseth up to rule nations: in him 
nations will put their trust, and his resting place shall be glo- 
rious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will 
proceed to shew his hand to provoke to jealousy the remnant 
of his people—that residue which is left from the Assyrians, 
and from Egypt and from Babylonia, and from Ethiopia and 
the Elamites, and trom the risings of the sun and Arabia. And 
he will erect a standard for the nations, and gather together the 
outcasts of Israel, and assemble the dispersed of Juda from the 
four quarters of the earth. And the envy of Ephraim shall be 
token away; and the enemies of Juda shall be destroyed: 
Ephraim shall not envy Juda; nor shall Juda vex Ephraim : 
And they shall be wafted in the ships of foreign tribes; and 
they shall spoil both the sea and them of the east and Idumea: 


and upon Moab they shall first lay their hands; but the sons of 


Ammon shall first obey. And the Lord will dry up the sea of 
Egypt, and fay his hand on the river with a vehement wind: 
and smite the seven channels, so that they may be crossed dry- 
shod. And there shall be a passage for my people left in Egypt. 
It shail be for Israel as on the day when they came up out of 


the land of Egypt. 


ΟΕ Ή exit. ΕΒΑΙΑΞΒ. 


XII. And on that day thou wilt say, I bless thee, O Lord; 


bo 


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because, though thou wast angry with me, thou hast turned 
away thy wrath and pitied me. Behold! my God is my Saviour, 
I will trust in him and not be afraid. Because the Lord is my 
glory and my praise ; and hath become unto me salvation ; 
therefore draw ye water with gladness from the wells of thanks- 
giving. 

Thou shalt say also on that day, O praise the Lord: invoke 
his name aloud! proclaim among the nations his glorious acts: 
call them up to your remembrance. Because his name is ex- 
alted ; praise ye the name of the Lord. Because he hath done — 
stupendous acts; proclaim them throughout the whole earth. 
Shout for joy and be glad, O mhabitants of Sion, for in the 
midst of it is exalted the Holy One of Israel. 


XU. VII. A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw respecting 


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Babylon. 

(J) ON amount in the plain, erect a standard; raise the voice 
to them ; beckon with the hand. Open O princes! itis I who 
command. It is I, who am leading these on. Giants are coming 
to execute my wrath, rejoicing and at the same time arrogant. 

(p) A sound of many nations on the mountains! A tu- 
multuous sound of many nations! A sound of kings and na- 
tions gathered together! the Lord of hosts hath issued or- 
ders to a nation trained for battle. ‘They are come from a far 
distant country—from the extreme butment of heaven—the 
Lord. and his trained warriors, to destroy all that inhabited 
land. 

Raise the mournful cry! for the day of the Lord is at hand, 
and destruction from God will come: therefore every hand 
shall be enfeebled ; and every man’s heart shall be dismayed. 
The men in power shall be confounded; and pangs shall seize 
them, like those of a woman in travail, And they shall be- 
wail their calamities, one to another, and be amazed; and their 
countenances will quiver like aflame. For behold the remedi- 
less day of the Lord is coming—-a day of wrath and. indigna- 


(J) Jehovah, (p) the prophet. 


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tion, to make the empire a desolation ; and to destroy the sin- 
ners out of it. For the stars of heaven—even Orion and the — 
whole host of heaven, shall not give light; even that of the 
rising sun shall be darkened; and the moon shall not give 
her light. 

(J) I will indeed order evils for the whole empire, and on 
the wicked their transgressions ; and destroy the arrogance of 
the wicked ; and humble the haughtiness of the proud; so 
that those left shall be more precious than tried gold and a man 
more precious than the ore of Souphir. For the heaven shall be 
filled with wrath; and the earth shaken from its foundations; at 
the fierce anger of the Lord of Hosts, on the day when his wrath 
shall come: and those left shall be like a chased roe and wander- 
ing sheep; and there shall be none to collect them together; so 
that they may return every man to his place, when every one 
shall be seeking his own country. For whoever is overtaken 
shall be thrust through and those collected in a body shall fall by 
the sword. And their infants shall be dashed to pieces before 
their eyes; and their houses shall be plundered and their wives 
ravished. Behold Iam raising up against you the Medes, who 
disregard silver and have no need of gold. They shall break the 
bows of the young men, and on your infants they will have no 
compassion; nor will their eyes spare thee for thy children. And 
Babylon, which is stiled Glorious, by the king of the Chal- 
deans, shall be as when God overthrew, Sodom and Gomorra. 
It shall not be inhabited for a great length of time, nor shall it 
be entered for many generations. The Arabians shall not pass 
through it; nor shall shepherds make their folds therein. But 
wild beasts shall there go to rest ; and the houses shall be fill- 
ed with howling. There jackals shall make their abode ; and 
there demons shall hold their revels. And onocentaurs shall 
inhabit there ; and porcupines shall breed in the houses. 


TY, (p) He is coming quickly and will not tarry, but the 


2 


Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still make choice of 
Israel; and they shall rest in their own land; and the stranger 
shall be joined to them, and shall be added to the house of Ja- 
cob. The nations shall take them and bring them to their place; 
and the house of Jacob shall possess them; when they shall be 
multiplied in their land, for men servants and for maid servants: 


Ch. XIV. ESAIAS. 


13 


14 
15 
16 


and they who captivated them shall be captives; and they who 
domineered over them shall be brought into subjection. And 
it shall come to pass in that day when the Lord shall give thee 
rest from thy sorrow and thy grief—from that hard servitude 
of thine, with which thou hast served them, that thou wilt take 
up this funeral song over the king of Babylon: 

(c) ‘‘ How the extortioner is laid to rest! and a stop put to 
his demands! The Lord hath broken the yoke of the sinners— 
the yoke of the rulers. He smote a nation in wrath with an in- 
curable wound; he smote a nation with a vengeful wound 
which did not spare. The confidant is gone to rest ; the whole 
earth shouteth for joy ; and the trees of Lebanon rejoice over 
thee—and the cedars of Lebanon say, 

‘¢ Since thou hast gone to rest, no feller is come up against 
us.””? Hades from beneath was in uproar to meet thee : for thee 
were roused all the giants who had ruled the earth. Having 
roused from their thrones all the kings of nations, they will all 
accost thee saying, 

“« And art thou ‘caught as we have been? And among us 
art thou enrolled? Is thy pomp come down to Hades—all thy 
great festivity δ᾽) Beneath thee they will strew corruption for a 
bed; and worms shall be thy covering. How is Lucifer fallen 
from heaven! He who was harbinger of the morning—he who 
sent messages to all the nations, is trampled down into the earth. 
Thou indeed didst say in thy heart, I will ascend up into hea- 
ven; above the stars of heaven I will place my throne; I will 
seat myself on a lofty mountain—on the lofty mountains which 
face the north. I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like 
the Most High. But thou must now go down to the mansion 
of the dead—even down to the foundations of the earth. They 
who see thee will express their amazement at thee and say, Is 


17 this the man who troubled the earth? who shook kings? who 


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made the world a desert? who, when he destroyed cities, never 
dismissed his captives? All the kings of the nations have been 
composed to rest with honour, every man in his own house. 
But thou shalt be cast out on the mountains, like an abomi- 


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(c) the chorus.- 


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20 


XIV. ESAIAS. 


nable corse, with dying crouds, pierced with the sword, de- 
scending down to the mansion of the dead. 

As a mantle stained with blood cannot be clean; for 
the same cause neither canst thou be clean. Because thou hast 
destroyed this land of mine, and hast slain this my people; thou 
shalt not be of long continuance. Wicked seed, prepare thy 
sons for slaughter, for the sins of their fathers; that they may 
not rise and possess the land, and fill the world with wars. I 
will indeed rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and 
destroy their name and remnant and seed. Thus saith the Lord, 
I will lay Babylonia waste: that. porcupines may inhabit it; and 
it shall be a desolation. And I will plunge it in the miry gulf 
of destruction. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, as 1 have spoken 
so it shall be; and as I have determined, so it shall stand. I 
will destroy the Assyrians on this land of mine: and on these 
mountains of mine they shal! be trodden down; and their yoke 
shall be removed from my people; and their reproach shall be 
taken from their shoulders. 

(p)This is the counsel which the Lord hath taken neehinks 
the whole empire, and this is the hand which is lifted high 
against all the nations. For who can disannul what the holy God 
hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn 
aside? 


Vill. in the year in which king Achaz died, this Oracle was de- 


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livered. 

REJOICE not, foreign tribes, with one consent, because the 
yoke of him who smote you is broken; for from the seed of a 
serpent will come forth young asps, and their offspring will be 
flying serpents. For the needy will be fed by him; and in peace 
the needy will repose. But with famine he will destroy thy 
seed—even the remnant of thy seed he will destroy. Raise the 
mournful cry ye gates of cities; O foreign tribes! let harassed 
cities scream with one consent: for a smoke is coming from the 
north, which cannot be endured; what then will the kings of 
nations say in reply? 

‘That the Lord hath founded Sion, and by him the poor 
of his people shall be saved.” 


Ch. XV. XVI. ESAIAS. 


XV. IX. The Oracle against Moab. 
IN the night Moab is destroyed; for by night is destroyed 
2. the bulwark of Moab. Bein bitterness for yourselves; for Debon 
also is destroyed. Where your altar is, thither you will go up 
to weep for Nabau of Moab. Raise the mournful cry. On every 
head be baldness; let all your arms be gashed with wounds. 
3 In the streets thereof, gird on sackcloth, and on its house tops 
make lamentation; and in the streets thereof and in its lanes, 
4 raise ye all the mournful cry with weeping: because Esebon 
and Eleale have screamed—even to Jassa their voice hath been 
heard; therefore the lungs of Moab utter lowings; her soul will 
be afflicted. The heart of Moab within her uttereth lowings, 
which reach Segor: for she is a three headed heifer. At the as- 
cent of Louith weepers will come up to thee; by the way of 
6 Aroniim destruction and dismay are roaring. The water of 
Nemereim will be dried up: and its grass will fail; there will be 
no green grass. But even thus it shall not be saved; for I will 
8 bring the Arabs against that valley; and they shall take it. For 
the ery of war touched the border of Moab at Agaleim, and 
9 the scream thereof reacheth even to the well of Aileim. As for 
the water of Deimon, it shall be full of blood; for I will bring 
the. Arabians against Deimon, and carry off the seed of Moab 
XVI. and Ariel; and the remnant of Adama I will send away 
as reptiles on the earth. Is Petra a desert? There is the moun- 
2 tain of the daughter of Sion [to fly to] for thou shalt be—(like 
the young of a flown bird carried away) Thou, Moab, shalt be 
a vassal; and after that there will be a greater tribute of lambs. 
9 Take counsel [Ὁ Sion] and make for her every where a 
shelter from grief. In midnight darkness they will flee. They 
4. are confounded. Be not thou incensed. Let the fugitives of Mo- 
ab sojourn with thee. They will be a shelter to you from the 
face of apursuer. Because thy share in the war is taken away; 
and the chief who trampled down is destroyed from this land; 
5 therefore a throne shall be established with mercy, and on it 
one shall be seated with truth; in the tabernacle of David, exe- 
cuting justice, and searching out χιόνων and promoting 

righteousness. 


Or 


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Ch. XVIL ESAIAS. 


6 (5) We have heard of the haughtiness of Moab—he is very | 
insolent.” 

(J)This haughtiness I have totally removed. 

7 “Is not this, is not this the oracle concerning thee? Moab 
shall raise the mournful cry, for in the country of Moab they 
shall all utter the cry of woe, but to them who dwell in the 
habitations of Seth thou shalt extend care and shalt not be 

8 ashamed.” The plains of Esebon shall mourn—the vineyard 
of Sebama. Ye who drink up the nations, trample down her 
vineyards to Jazer. You need not march in close array: roam 
through the wilderness. They who were dispatched were wholly 
given up, for they passed through quite to the sea. 

9 (p)Let me therefore weep, as with the weeping of Jazer, for the 
vineyards of Sebama. He hath cut down thy trees, O Esebon 
and. Eleale. { 

(J)Because in harvest and at thy vintage I will trample down 

10 and all shall be laid prostrate; therefore gladness and the shout 
of joy shall be taken from the vineyards. And in thy vineyards 
they shall not rejoice, nor tread out wine in thy cisterns, for a 
stop is put to the shout of joy. 

11 (p) For Moab therefore will my bowels sound like a kithara, 

12 and my entrails, as when thou didst consecrate a wall; but it 
will be for the purpose of making thee ashamed. Because Mo- 
ab had tired himself at the altars, therefore he will go in to the 
works of his hands; that they may intercede; but they shall 
not be able to deliver him. 

13 This is the decree which the Lord pronounced against 

14 Moab, when he spoke. And now I say, within three years of 
the years of an hireling the glory of Moab shall be debased 
with all his abundant wealth; and he shall be left few in num- 
ber and of no estimation. 


XVII. X. The Oracle against Damascus. | 
BEHOLD Damascus shall be removed from among cities, 
2 and shall be for desolation—left for ever for the folding of 
flocks, and for a resting place where none will scare them. 
3 And it shall no more be a fortress for Ephraim to flee to; nor 


(5) Sion. 


Ch. XVIII. ESATAS. 


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14 


shall there be again a regal government in Damascus—ever 
hereafter, of the Syrians. For thou art not better than the chil- 
dren of Israel—than that which was their glory. Thus saith the 
Lord of hosts, there shall be in that day a diminution of the 
glory of Jacob; and the fatness of his glory shall be shaken; 
and it shall be as when one gathereth the standing harvest 
and reapeth the ears of stalks; nay, it shall be as when one ga- 
thereth stalks in a sterile vale, still a stalk may be left in it: 
or like the unripe berries of an olive tree, two or three may be 
left on the topmost bough, or four or five among the branches. 

Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, in that day let man 
trust in his maker, and his eyes look to the Holy One of Israel: 
and let him no more put confidence in altars, nor in the works 
of their hands which their fingers have made, nor look to the 
groves nor to their abominations. 

In that day thy cities shall be forsaken, as the Amorites 
and Evites forsook theirs because of the sons of Israel: and 
they shall become a desolation. 

Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast 
not been mindful of the Lord thy helper, therefore thou shalt 
plant a faithless plant and a faithless seed. On the day thou 
plantest thou shalt be deceived. Though thou sowest in the 
morning, shall it bloom for harvest? or on the day when thou 
shalt take possession, shalt thou as the father of man take pos- 
session for thy sons ? 

Alas! the multitude of many nations! Like the billowy sea 
so shall you be tossed, and the back of many nations shall 
sound like water. The multitude of nations being like a 
great flood, their flight shall be like that of a mighty torrent roll- 
ing on impetuously. For he will repulse them with scorn, and 
pursue them to a great distance, like chaff before the wind 
when men winnow, or asa tempest driveth the dust of a wheel. 
‘Toward evening there will be grief; before morning they shall 


ΡῈ no more. This is the portion of them who have plundered 


you; and this the inheritance of them, who have taken posses. 
sion of you. . 


XVIII. Ah! wings of the land of ships! Thou who surpass- 


2 


est the Ethiopian streams, thou who art sending pledges by 
sea, and paper messages on the water; for swift messengers 
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will go to a lofty nation, and toa strange and fierce people. 
There is one far transcending it. With regard to the nation » 
without hope and. trodden down, at this time, O all ye streams 
of that land, like an inhabited country, their country shall be 
inhabited. As if a signal were displayed from a mountain, as 
with the sound of a trumpet, let the news be spread. For thus 
hath the Lord said to me, ‘‘ There shall be safety in this city 
of mine; like the light of noontide heat; and it shall be like a 
dewy cloud ina ‘to est day.” 

Before the vintage, when the blossom 15 ie and the 
young grape is swelling in the blossom; the diminutive bunch- 
es are to be cut off with pruning hooks, and the small shoots, 
to be nip’d off and cut away, and left together for the birds of 
the air, and for the wild beasts of the earth. And against them 
will be gathered all the birds of the air; and all the wild beasts 
of the earth will come upon it. At that time gifts will be brought 
to the Lord of Hosts from a people afflicted and peeled—even 
on account of a people great from this time and forever. A 
nation having hope, though trodden down, which is ma part of 
the river of its country, will send them to the place of him, 
whose name is the Lord of Hosts, even to mount Sion. 


XIX. ΧΙ. A vision concerning Egypt. 


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BEHOLD the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will 
come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at 


his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them. 


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And they shall be stirred up, Egyptians against Egyptians, 
and shall fight; brother against brother and neighbour against 
neighbour, city against city, and nome against nome. And the 
spirit of the Egyptians shall be troubled within them : and I 
will dissipate their counsel; and they will consult their gods 
and their idols; and them who cause a voice to proceed from 
the ground, namely the belly speakers. And I will deliver 
Egypt into the hands of men—cruel lords; and fierce kings 
shall have dominion over them. 

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, The Egyptians drink water even 
that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up—both 
the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every col- 
lection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds: 


Ch. XIX. ESATAS. 


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and papyrus grow. And all the quick springing herbage which 
is around the river, and every thing which is sown by the river 
shall be dried up and withered by the wind. And. the fisher- 
men shall mourn—all who cast drags in the river shall mourn; 
and they who spread nets and they who are anglers shall grieve: 
and shame shall seize them who work the split flax, and them 
who work up the cotton. They who are employed in such 
works shall be in sorrow; and they who brew beer shall mourn 
and be grieved in soul. 

‘The princes of 'Tanis shall be fools, those wise counsellors 
of the king, their counsel shall be turned into folly. How can 
you say to the king, We are sons of wise men, sons of ancient 
kings? Where now are these wise men of thine? Let them tell 
thie publickly and declare what the Lord of hosts hath deter- 
mined against Egypt. 

The princes of Tanis have failed; and fhe princes of Mem- 
phis are exalted, and they will lead Egypt astray, tribe by 
tribe. For the Lord hath mingled for them a spirit of error, and 
they with all their works have made Egypt reel, as ἃ drunk- 
ard doth, when he is vomiting. So that there shall be no work 
among the Egyptians, of which one can make head or tail, be- 
ginning or end. And in that day the Egyptians shall be like 
women in fear and trembling because of the ‘le of the Lord 
of Hosts which he will lay upon them. 

And the country of the Jews will be a terror to the Egyp- 
tians: when any one shall mention it to them, they will be in 
terror, because of the counsel which the Lord of Hosts hath 
determined against it. In that day there shall be five cities in 
Egypt which shall speak the language of Chanaan. And swear 
by the name of the Lord of Hosts: and one of them shall be 
called the city of Asedek. And in that day there shall be an al- 
tar for the Lord in the country of the Egyptians, and at its 
boundary a pillar for the Lord, and it shall be an everlasting 
sign for the Lord, in the country of Egypt. Because they will 
cry to the Lord on account of their oppressors, therefore he 
will send thema man who will save them: he will vindicate their 
cause and deliver them. And the Lord will be made known to 
the Egyptians, andthe Egyptians will acknowledge the Lord 


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in that day, and offer sacrifices and make vows to the Lord 
and perform them. Thus will the Lord smite the Egyptians 
and heal them, and they shall be turned to the Lord, and he 
will hearken to them and heal them. 

In that day this will be the highway from Egypt to Assyria; 
and Assyrians will come to Egypt and Egyptians to Assy- 
ria; and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. In that day 
Israel shall be a third, among the Egyptians and among the 
Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of Hosts hath 
blessed saying, 

‘“‘ Blessed is my people which is in Egypt, and which is 
in Assyria and Israel which is mine inheritance.” 


XX. XII. ΙΝ the year that Tanathan having been sent by 
Arna king of Assyria went to Azotus and fought against it 
and took it, at that time the Lord spoke to Esaias son of Amos 
saying, ‘Go and take the sackcloth from thy loins and loose 
thy sandals from thy feet; and having done so walk stripp’d and 
bare foot.”” And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias hath 
walked stripp’d and bare foot, three years ; three years he shall 
be for signs and’ wonders to the Egyptians, and Ethiopians, 
that in this manner the king of Assyria will lead away the 
captives of Egypt and Ethiopia, young and old, naked and 
barefoot, exposing to view the shame of Egypt. And they 
being. subdued shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians in whom 
the Egyptians had placed confidence; for they were their 
glory. And in that day the inhabitants of this country will say, 

Behold we trusted to flee for help to them, who were un- 
able to deliver themselves from the king of Assyria: how then 
shall we escape ? 


XXJI. XII. The vision of the Desert. 


AS, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is 
rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible ; 
this vision being also dreadful, was revealed to me. The trea- 
cherous dealeth treacherously; the transgressor transgresseth ; 
the Elamites are upon me ; and the elders of the Persians are 
coming against me. Am I now to groan and comfort myself ? 


Ch. XXII. ESATIAS. 


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For this cause my loinsare filled with fainting; pangs have seiz- 
ed me like a woman in travail. I did wrong not to hear; I shud- 
dered sothatI could not see. My heart is bewildered, transgres- 
sion overwhelmeth me. My soul is on the brink of despair. Pre- 
pare the table. Eat, drink ye chiefs. Having arisen prepare 
shields. Because thus the Lord said to me, ‘‘ Go set a watch- 
man for thyself and proclaim what thou seest.” Thereupon ἢ 
beheld a chariot with two riders, and a rider on an ass and a 
rider on a camel. 

‘Listen with the utmost attention, said the Lord, and call 
‘‘A fair breeze to the watch tower” I have kept my station all 
the day long, and by the camp I have stood the whole night; and 
behold here cometh a man riding in a chariot, and addressing 
me he said, “It is fallen! Babylon is fallen ! and all her images, 
and all the works of her hands are dashed on the ground.” 

Hear this ye who have been forsaken! and ye, who have 
been sorely grieved, hear what I have heard from the Lord of 
Hosts—-what the God of Israel hath announced to us. 


XIV. Lhe vision concerning Idumea. 

TO me one calleth from Seir, ‘Guard ye the fortifica- 
tions,” I keep watch morning and night. If thou wouldst in- 
quire; inquire and dwell near me. Thou mayst go to rest in 
the western forest, or in the way to Dedan. , 

O inhabitants of the country of Thaiman, bring out water 
to meet the thirsty ; meet with bread them who are fleeing, 
because of the multitude of the slain ; and because of the mul- 
titude of dispersed; and because of the multitude of swords; 
and because of the multitude of bended bows; and because 
of the multitude of them who have fallen in battle. For thus 
hath the Lord said to me, “ Within a year, according to the 
year of an hireling, the glory of the children of Kedar shall 
fail; and the remnant of the mighty bowmen of Kedar shall 
be small. For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken.” 


XXIL XV... The Oracle concerning the valley of Sion. 


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WHAT aileth thee, that you are all now gone up to thc 
house tops? This vain city is full of people shouting. Thy. 
slain are not slain with the sword; nor have thy dead died in 


Ch. XXII. ‘ESATAS. 


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battle. All thy chiefs have fled and they who are taken are cru- 
elly bound. Even the mighty men in thee have fled far away. 

Therefore I said, Let me alone; let me weep bitterly: la- 
bour-not to comfort me, for this distress of the daughter of my 
people. For it is a day of trouble and destruction and tread- 
ing down. There is indeed some wandering from the Lord of 
Hosts; in the valley of Sion they are wandering about; from 
the least to the greatest they are wandering on the mountais. 
But the Elamites have taken up their quivers; and the horse- 
men have mounted their horses; and the army is arrayed in 
order for battle; and on they will come. Thy choicest valleys 
shall be filled with chariots; and the horsemen will block up 
thy gates, and burst open the gates of Juda; and look, on that 
day, into the choicest houses of the city; and lay open the 
stores of the houses of David’s citadel. They indeed know that 
they are many, and that the water of the old pool is turned into 
the city, and that the houses of Jerusalem have been pulled 
down, to fortify the wall in the city. 

You have indeed provided water for yourselves, idcheds 
the two walls nearer than the old pool, and have not looked to 
him who formed it of old, nor regarded him who created it. 

Though the Lord of hosts, on that day, called for mourn- 
ing, and lamentation, and for shaving of hair and girding with 
sackcloth, yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, 
slaying oxen and sacrificmg sheep, that they might eat flesh 
and drink wine, saying, ‘‘ Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow 
we die.”” Yes, these were their undisguised expressions, in the 
hearing of the Lord of hosts, therefore this sin will not be for- 
given you till you die. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Go to 
the treasury—to Somnas the steward, and say to him, Why 
art thou here? and what hast thou here? that thou hast hewn 
out for thyself a monument, and hast made for thyself a se- 


-pulchre on high, and graved for thyself a tabernacle in a.rock? 


Behold the Lord of hosts is now driving out and will utterly 
destroy men of rank, and he will take away thy robe and this 
gorgeous crown of thine, and whirl thee into a large immea- 
surable country, and there thou shalt die. And he will bring 
to disgrace thy splendid chariot, and make the house of thy 
chief a publick walk. And when thou shalt be removed from 


Ch. XXIII. ESAIAS. 


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thine office and station: it shall come to pass in that day, that 
I will call my servant Eliakim son of Chelkias, and clothe him 
with thy robe. And this crown of thine I will confirm to him, 
and [I will commit to his hands this office of thine: and he shall 
be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to them who 
dwell in Juda. And I will give him the glory of David, and 
he shall rule and there shall be no antagonist; and on his should- 
er I will lay the key of the house of David; and he will open 
and none shall shut; and he will shut and none shall open : 
and I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be a 
throne of glory for the house of his father. And on him will 
rely with confidence, every honourable man in his father’s 
house, from the least even to the greatest. On him they shall 
be dependant in that day. 

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, The man who is now fixed 
ina sure place shall be removed and taken away and shall fall; 
and the glory which is on him shall be utterly destroyed for 
the Lord hath spoken it. ) 


XX. 9 XVI. The Oracle concerning Tyre. 


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RAISE the mournful cry, O ships of Carthage, for Tyre 
is destroyed and there are no arrivals from the land of the Ki- 
tians. She is carried away captive. 

Who could be compared with the dwellers in this island— 
these merchants of Pheenicia, who traversed the ocean—this 
offspring of merchants on many a water, who made a traffick 
of nations as of an ingathered harvest? 

Be ashamed, O Sidon, said the sea—even the strength of 
the sea said, | 

“T did not travail nor did I bring her forth; nor did I 
nourish her youths, nor educate her virgins; yet when the 
news shall reach Egypt, sorrow for Tyre will take hold on 
them.” 

Away to Carthage ! Raise the mournful ery, ye who inha- 
bit that isle ! Was not she your boast of old, before she was 
delivered up? 

“‘ Who hath taken this counsel against the Lyrians? ds she 
inferior? Or hath she not power? Her merchants are glorious 
chiefs of the earth.” 


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The Lord of Hosts hath determined to destroy all the 
haughtiness of the glorious; and to bring to contempt every | 
thing glorious on the earth. 

Work thy land: for ships no more arrive from Carthage, 
nor is thy hand which vexed kings, any more powerful by 
sea. The Lord of Hosts hath given a command, concerning 
Chanaan, to destroy its power: and shall it be said, You must 
not proceed to insult and distress the daughter of Sidon? Nay 
though thou shouldst go to the Kitians; yet even there thou 
shalt not have rest. Away to the land of the Chaldeans, though 
it hath been wasted by the Assyrians; because its walls had 
fallen. | 

Raise the mournful cry, O ships of Carthage, because 
your strong hold is destroyed. 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be 
forsaken seventy years, according to the days of a king, ac- 
cording to the time of a man. And it shall come to pass after 
seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. 

Take a kithara, stroll about, O city, O harlot long forgot- 
ten! Play skilfully; smmg many songs, that thou mayst be re- 
membered. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that 
God will take account of Tyre, and she shall be restored to 
her former state, and be a mart for all the kingdoms of the 
world; which are on the face of the earth. And her traffick and 
gain shall be holy to the Lord. All her gain shall not be trea- 
sured up for themselves, but for them who dwell before the 
Lord, that they may eat and drink and be filled, and for con- 
tributions to be kept in remembrance before the Lord. 


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stroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the 
face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell there. And 
it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the 
servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mis- 
tress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, 
so with the borrowér; as with the debtor, so with the credit- 
or. With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with 
spoiling this land will be ransacked : for the mouth of the Lord 
hath spoken this. The land mourned and this empire is de- 


Ch. XXIV. ESAIAS. 


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stroyed—the lofty people of the land mourned. As for the 
land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they 
transgressed the law, and changed the institutions—the ever- 
lasting covenant, therefore a curse devoureth the land. Be- 
cause they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inha- 
bitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men 
who shall be left. The wine will mourn, the vineyard will 
mourn, and all that were merry-hearted will sigh. The mirth 
of the tabrets hath ceased, the sound of the kithara is no more. 
They are confounded : they have drunk no wine. The palm 
wine was bitter to them who drank it. Every city is desolat- 
ed—the houses will be shut up that none may enter. 

Raise the mournful cry every where for the wine. A stop 
is put to all the joy of the land—all the joy of the land is gone. 
The cities will be left desolate, and the houses being forsaken 
will be destroyed. All this shall come to pass in this land, in 
the midst of the nations. As when one shall shake an olive tree, 
so shall they be shaken: and when the vintage is over a shout 
will be raised. 

But they who are left in the’ land shall be gladdened with 
the glory of the Lord. The water of the sea will be troubled: for 
this cause the glory of the Lord will be in the isles of the sea. 
In the isles of the sea the name of the Lord will be glorious. 

(c)“ O Lord the God of Israel! from the outskirts of the © 
earth we have heard of thy wonders: ’ there is hope for the 
righteous.” 

(p)Let them say also, “Woe to the rebels who reject the law! 
Terror and a pit and a snare are for you who dwell in the land: 
and it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the terror, 
shall fall into the pit; and he who getteth out of the pit, shall 
be caught by the snare. Because the flood gates of heaven are 
opened, therefore the foundations of the land shall be shaken. 
With confusion the land will be confounded; with perplexity 
this land will be perplexed. It reeled to and fro like a drunkard 
when intoxicated: like a lodge in a vineyard the land shall be 
shaken. For iniquity hath prevailed over it; and it shall fall and 
shall not be able to rise. When God shall bring his hand on the 
hosts of heaven, even upon the kings of this land; and the con- 
gregation thereof shall have been assembled for imprisonment, 

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and shut up as chaff for many generations; of them there shall 
be a visitation. 

(c)When the bricks shall have mouldered away, and the wall 
shall have fallen; because the Lord will commence his reign 
from Sion and from Jerusalem, and be glorified in the presence 


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of praise I will extol thy name. For thou hast executed won- 
derful things; a counsel of old immutably true. 

Because thou hast reduced cities toa heap of ruins—cities 
made strong, that their foundations might not fall; (a city of 
wicked men cannot be built to last forever) therefore the dis- 


. tressed people will bless thee and the cities of injured men 


will give thee thanks; for thou hast been the support of every 
humble city and the defence of them who were dispirited; 
by reason of their weakness. From wicked men thou wilt de- 
liver them. ‘Thou art the support of the thirsty and the breath 
of men in distress. 

(p) When dispirited men shall be thirsting in Sion on ac- 
count of wicked men to whom thou hast delivered us up; 
then will the Lord of Hosts make provision for all the nations. 
On this mount they shail drink gladness: they shall drink 
wine and be anointed with myrrh on this mount. Hand down 
all these thing's to the nations for this counsel is for all the na- 
tions. ᾿ 
.. Mighty death had swallowed up; but the Lord God hath 


again wiped every tear from every face; and removed from the 


whole earth the reproach of this people. For the mouth of the 
Lord hath spoken. 
And in that day they will say, “Behold our God in whom 


we trusted, will indeed save us. He is the Lord, for him we 


waited and exulted; let us seth rejoice in our salvation. 
God will give rest on this mountain.’ 

Sect. 2. WHEN the country of Moab shall be feedien down, 
as a threshing floor is trampled with cars and he shall cause his 
hands to relax, as he indeed humbled him to be slain, and 
shall humble his pride—those things on which he hath laid 
his hands, and shall lower the height of his wall of refuge; and 
it shall be laid low in the dust: in that day shall this song be 
sung in the land of Judea. 


Ch. XXVI. ESATAS, 


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salvation its wall and outworks. Open the gates; let the people 
enter, who keep righteousness and who keep truth; who sup- 
port truth and keep peace; because their confidence is placed 
in thee, O Lord! who art to everlasting, the Mighty, the 
Eternal God, who hast humbled and brought down them who 
dwell in lofty places. Fortified cities thou canst demolish and 
level them with the dust, that the feet of the meek and lowly 
may trample them. The way of the pious was straight; the 
way of the pious was well prepared; for the way of the 
Lord is justice. We have trusted in thy name and in that 
remembrance which is the desire of our soul by night. 
To thee, O God, my spirit awaketh carly, because thy statutes 
are a light on the earth. Learn righteousness ye dwellers 
on earth, for the wicked one is no more. Whoever will not 
learn justice on earth, cannot act agreeably to truth. Let 
the wicked be removed that he may not see the glory of 
the Lord. Thy hand, O Lord, was lifted high; but they did 
not know it; but when they know they will be ashamed. Zeal 
will seize an uninstructed people; even now a fire devoureth 
the adversaries. 

O Lord, our God, grant us peace, for thou hast given us 
all things. O Lord, our God, take possession of us! besides 
thee, O Lord, we know none other. We celebrate thy name. As 
for those who are dead they would not see life, nor could physi- 
cians raise them up; therefore thou hast removed and destroy- 
ed and taken away all their males. Heap, O Lord, evils upon 
them—Heap evils on the vainglorious of the earth. 

O Lord, in affliction I remembered thee. Thine instruction 
to us was with a small affliction; and as a woman in labour, 
when near delivery, cricth in her pangs, so have we been to thy 
beloved. On account of the fear of thee, O Lord, we conceiv- 
ed and suffered the pangs of child birth, and brought forth the 
spirit of thy salvation; for what we did in that land we are not 
to fail; but all the dwellers in that land are to fall. 

(p) ihe dead shall be raised up again, even they in the 
tombs shall be raised up: and they in this land shall be filled 
with joy: for the dew from thee is healing for them; but the 
land of the ungodly shall fall. Go my people, enter into thy 


Ch. XXVIII. ESAIAS. 


chambers; shut thy door: hide thyself for a little while; until 


2] the anger of the Lord is passed. For behold the Lord from 


his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this 
land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no 
longer cover the slain. 


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great and powerful sword, upon the dragon, the flying serpent 

—Upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; he will slay the dra- 
on. 

: In that day the fair vineyard—I have a mind to lead a re- 

sponsive song against this. 

(c) Iama strong city, a city besieged. 

(v) In vain shall I supply her with drink: for by night she 
will be taken, and by day she will fall. There is no wall, or 
it hath not availed her. Will any one set me to watch a stalk 
in a field ? On account of this warfare I have rejected her. 

(c) For this cause therefore the Lord hath executed all that 
he determined. I am about to be burned up. 

(v) Let the inhabitants therein cry aloud, ‘‘ Let us make 
peace with him. Let us make peace.” 

(p) They who are coming are children of Jacob. Israel shall 
bloom and blossom; and the world shall be filled with his fruit. 
He shall not, ashe smote, be so smitten: nor, as he slew, shall he 
be so slain. Having fought and disgraced them he will let them 
go. Thou hast not been visiting with this severe wind, to de- 
stroy them utterly with a blast of anger. 

(J) By means of this the iniquity of Jacob will be removed: 
and this will be to him a subject of thanksgiving, when I take 
away his sin—when they grind to powder all the hewn stones 
of their altars, and their groves no longer remain, and their 
idols hack’d to pieces like a forest are far away. The folded 


- flock shall be disconsolate, like a flock which hath been forsa- 


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ken; and for a long time the country shall be for a pasture, and 
flocks shall there take their rest. And after a time there will 
be no verdure in it, by reason of its being parched up. 

(p) O ye women who are coming from a goddess attend ! 
For this is not a people, who have understanding; therefore he 


(c) the city. (v) the vineyard. 


Ch., XXVIII. ESATAS. 


who made them will not have pity on them; nor will he who 
12 formed them shew them any favour. 
(J) Butitshall come to pass in that day,that God will hed ge 
them about from the channel of the river even to Rinocorouron. 
13 Therefore gather ye the sons of Israel together one by one. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet 
shall be sounded and those shall come who are perishing in the 
land of Assyria, and they who are perishing in Egypt; and 
shall bow themselves down before the Lord, on this holy 
mountain in Jerusalem. 
XXVIII. ᾿ Sect.3.  (p) AH! the crown of haughtiness! The 
mercenaries of Ephraim! That flower which hath fallen from 
the glory on the top of the fertile mountain! Ye who are 
drunk without wine ! Behold the wrath of the Lord is a harsh 
and terrible thing. Like a tempest of hail furiously driven when 
there is no shelter, like a mighty deluge sweeping a country. 

3 In this land it will put a stop to the labour of hands; and with 
the feet shall be trampled down the crown of your pride, O 

4 mercenaries of Ephraim, And the flower which hath dropped 
from the hope of the Glory, on the top of the lofty mountain, 
shall be like the early fruit of a fig tree, which he who seeth it 
will wish to devour, before he can get it into his hand. 

5 In that day the Lord of Hosts will be the crown of hope— 

6 the diadem of glory tothe remnant of the people. They shail 
be left for the spirit of Justice—to administer justice and de- 

7 stroy the power of opposers. For by wine these were made 
transgressors; they were led astray by strong drink. Priest and 
prophet were stupefied with strong drink ; they were gorged 
with wine—they were agitated by drunkenness; they reeled to 

8 and fro. This is oracling! A curse shall devour their counsel; 
for their counsel is for the sake of gain. 

9 (ἢ) “ To whom, [say they] have we announced evils? 
And to whom have we announced a message—we who have 
been weaned from milk, we who have been withdrawn Srom the 
breasts? Eapect affliction on affiiction; hope on hope, yet a little 
while—yet a little while. 7 

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will speak to this people with a sirange tongue, saying to them, 


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“ This is the resi for him who is hungry; and ‘this is the de- 
struction, but they would not hear.’ Therefore the oracle of 
God will be to them ‘ Affliction on-affliction; hope on hope, yet 
a little while, yet a little while” that they may proceed on 
and fall backwards; and they shall be broken and snared and 
caught. Therefore hear the word of the Lord, ye afflicted 
men, and ye rulers of this people in Jerusalem! Because you 
said, “7776 have made a covenant with death; and with the grave 
we have made a treaty: though the furious tempest may pass 
through, it will by no means reach us. We have made falsehood 
our refuge and by this fulschood we shall be saved.” 

Therefore thus saith the Sovereign Lord; behold I lay for 
the foundation of Sion a stone of inestimable worth—a chosen, 
precious corner-stone for the foundations of it,and he who be- 
lieveth shall not be ashamed. And I will establish judgment 
for hope, and my mercy shall be for seales. But as for you 
who have vainly trusted in falsehood, that the tempest would 
not reach you; and that it would not break your treaty with 
death; the hope which you have with respect to the grave shall 
not last: when the furious tempest cometh, by it you shall be 
beaten down. When it cometh it will overtake you. Early, very 
early in the morning it will come, and at night your hope will 
be wretched. Learn to hear, “ We are straitened for room, we 
cannot fight. We are weakened by your pressing upon us.” Like 
a mountain of wicked men the Lord will rise up; and he will 
be in the valley of Gabaon. With wrath he will execute his 
work—a work of bitterness; and his wrath will attack ina 
strange manner; and its severity will be unusual. As for 
you therefore, be not filled with joy, yet let not your bonds 
gather strength. For the things are complete and decisive 
which Ihave heard fromthe Lord of Hosts—which he will ex- 
ecute on all this land. 

Listen and hear my voice; attend and hearken to these 
words of mine. Will the ploughman plough the whole day ? 
Or prepare seed before he hath tilled the ground ? Doth he 
not, when he hath levelled the face of the soil, then sow the 
small dill or cummin? and again sow wheat and barley and 
millet and rye im all thy borders ? So thou shalt be corrected 
by the judgment of God; and be made glad. For the dill is 


Ch: 


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XXIX. ESAIAS., A 


not cleaned with a corn drag; nor is the wheel of a wain to 
turn round on the cummin; but with a rod are beaten out 


the dill—and cummin. 
(J) Yet with bread they will be eaten. For I, Zhe Iam 


will not be angry with you forever, nor shall the voice of my 
severity destroy you. ‘These wonders have indeed proceeded 
from the Lord of Hosts. 


XXIX. ἨΗοΪὰά consultation; exalt vain comfort. Ah city Ariel, 


2 eat 


~] 


10 


il 


12 


against which David fought! collect provisions year after year; 
; for you shall eat with Moab ; for I will bring distress 
upon Ariel, and her strength and her riches. shall be for me. 
I will indeed encompass thee as David did; and surround 


| thee with a rampire; and erect towers around thee. But when 


thy words shall be brought down to the ground ; and shall be as 


if they sounded out of the earth; and thy voice on the ground 


shall be feeble ; then shall the riches of the wicked be as the 
dust of a wheel, and the multitude of thine oppressors as chafi 
blown away : and this shall be as in a moment, suddenly. For 
from the Lord of Hosts there will be a visitation—a hurricane 
and a devouring flame of fire, with thunder and an earthquake 
and a mighty noise ; and the wealth of all the nations which 
encamped against Ariel, and all they who are warring against 
Jerusalem, and all who have been assembled against her, and 
those distressing her, shall be like one dreaming dreams by 
night : and like men who in sleep are eating and drinking, but 
when they awake the dream is vain: even as a thirsty man 
dreameth that he drinketh, and when he waketh he is still 
athirst, his soul having trusted in a shadow: so shall be the 


_ wealth of. all the nations, who have warred against mount 


Sion.— 

(p) Be sunk im dejection and stand astonished ; be drunk 
and reel, not with wine nor strong drink ; for the Lord hath 
drenched you with a point of stupefaction, and will close up 
the eyes of them and of their prophets and their rulers. As fo: 
your scers of hidden things, all these prophesies will be to you 
like the words of a book which is sealed : which when they 
give toa man skilled in letters, saying, Read this: He will say, 
I cannot read it, for it is sealed. And should the book: be put 


Ch. XXX. -ESAIAS. 


14 


15 


16 


17 


18 


in the hands of an illiterate man, and they say & him, ig Γ' 


that, he will say, I do not know letters. 

The Lord hath indeed said, (J) ‘‘ This people draw near 
to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me; 
but their heart is far from me: and in vain do they worship 
me, teaching the commands and doctrines of men: therefore, 
behold, I will proceed to the removal of this people and I will 
remove them ; and destroy the wisdom of the wise, and dark- 
en the understanding of the prudent.” Alas! for them, who 
deeply form a design, but not by the Lord. Alas! for them, 
who form designs in secret, that their works may be in dark- 
ness; and who will say, ‘‘ Who hath seen us, and who can 
find out us, or what we do?” Are not you to be considered 
as the potter’s clay ? Shall the thing formed say to the former 
of it, thou hast not made me. Or shall the work say to the 
workman ‘thou hast not made me wisely? Is it not a little 


while, ere Libanus shall be changed toa likeness of mount Car- 


mel ὃ And Carmel be accounted a forest? And inthat day 
thé deaf shall hear the Words of a book, and they in darkness, . 
even they in thick darkness—the eyes even of the blind 
shall see ; and the distressed shall exult with joy because of 
the Lord; and the disconsolate among men shall be filled 
with joy. The lawless one hath failed, and the haughty one is 
destroyed, and these are utterly cut off who maliciously com- 
mit iniquity, and who by reasoning cause men to err. But as for 


all them who reprove inthe gates they will indeed lay a stum- : 


bling block, because of their having turned aside the righteous 
one forthe unrighteous, therefore, thus saith the Lord respecting 
the. house of J cOIY, “whom he set apart from Abraham; ‘Jacob 
will not be ἜΝ, now, nor will he now change his counte- 
nance ; but when his children shall see my works, because of 
me they will hallow my name. They will hall i the Holy 
One of Jacob, and tremble before the God of Israel. And they 
who have erred in spirit will gain knowledge, and the mur- 
murers shall be taught obedience, and the trifling tongues will 
learn to speak peace.” 


“XXX. Sect. 4. “ AH rebellious children ! saith the ἔκταν 


you have formed a design, but not»by me: and thou hast 
a | 


a 


Ch. XXX. ESAIAS. 


5 


6 


NT 


8 


9 


made covenants, but not by my spirit, that you may add sins 
to sins, 

““ They are setting out to go down to Egypt, without hay- 
ing consulted me—to be assisted by Pharao and protected by 
the Egyptians. For the protection of Pharao will be your 
shame, and a disgrace to them who have trusted in Egypt. 
Because generals are unwelcome messengers at Tanis, they 
shall labour in vain with a people who will be of no service 
for assistance; but fora shame and disgrace. 

This is the vision of the four footed beasts in the desert— 
A lion and a lion’s whelp were in distress and difficulty; and 
from them went the asps and the brood of flying serpents, 
who carried their wealth on asses and camels toa nation which 
could not profit them. 

In vain and to no purpose will the Egyptians help. you. 
Announce to them, That this application of yours is vain. 

Now therefore sit down and write these things in a tablet 
and make a book that they may be for the appointed ‘time— 
even for the time to come. Because this is a rebellious peo- 


10 ple—lying children, who would not hear the law of God, who 


11 


12 


13 


14 


15 


Say to the prophets, “ Preach not to τ|5,᾽ and to them who see 


visions, “" Speak not to us, nay, speak to us and tell us another 
error, and turn us from this way, and take from us this path, 
and take from us the oracle of Israel.” ὺ 
Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, because you 
have disbelieved these words and placed your hopes on a lie: 
and because thou hast murmured, and been confident in this 
matter; therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall 
of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall 
of which is instantaneous. And its fall shall be like the breaking 
of an earthen vessel, the fragments of which are so small that 


‘there cannot be found among them a sherd on which thou 


canst carry fire or with which thou canst scoop up a little 
water. 

Thus saith the Lord, Lord. The Holy One of Israel, when thou 
shalt return sighing, then thou shalt be saved, and thou shalt 
know in what a situation thou wast, when thou didst trast in 
these vanities. 4 


WOU. Titi 0 


Cur MEK Ke 2 ESAIAS. 


16 


17 


18 


19 


20 


21 


22 


23 


28 


Your strength was vain, yet you would not hearken, but 


said, “‘ We will flee’on horses.’’ Therefore flee you shall. And, © 


“‘ We will mount swift coursers,”’ therefore swift shall be your 
pursuers. Ἷ 4 

A thousand shall flee at the voice of one; and at the voice 
of five, many thousands shall flee : until»you be left like a bea- 


con on amountain, and like a flag staff upon a hill. 


(p) But again the Lord will wait to be gracious to you, 
and will therefore be exalted for compassionating you. Be- 
cause the Lord your God is judge, happy are they who wait 
for him. Because a holy people will dwell in Sion, and Jerusa- 


lem with weeping cried, “‘ Have mercy upon me.” There- . 


fore he will have mercy upon thee. When he heard the sound 
of thy cry, he hearkened to thee. When the Lord shall have 
given you bread of affliction and stinted water, they who lead 
thee astray shallno more come near thee. Because thine 
eyes will see them who are leading thee astray and thine ears 
will hear the words of the deceivers behind thee who say, This 


is the way let us walk in it, Pinctier to the right or left; there- _ 


fore thou wilt defile thine idols plated .with silver, and cut to 
pieces those overlaid with gold, and scatter them lke pollut- 
ed water and cast them out as dirt. Then shall there be rain 
for the seed of thy land, andthe bread of the increase of thy 
land shall be both abundant and nutritive : and thy cattle shall 
feed in rich and large pastures. Your bulls and your cattle 
which till the ground shall eat provender mixed with winnow- 
ed. barley. And there shall be on every lofty mountain, and on 
every high hill streams of water in that day, when many shall 
be perishing and when towers may be falling. And the light of 
the moon shall be as the light of the sun; and the light of the 
sun shall on that day be seven fold; when the Lord will heal 
the bruises of his people, and when he will cure thy painful 
wound. io ' 


Behold the name ofthe Lord cometh for a time, a burn- 


ing wrath. The oracle of his lips with glory is an oracle full of 


indignation, and the fury of the wrath devoureth like fire; and 


his breath is like a sweeping flood in a valley, which will reach 
up to the neck and swell to confound nations for their vain 
errors. 


“πὶ 


— > ee ᾿ἣ 


Ch. ΧΧΧΙ. ESAIAS. 


~29 


When error shall pursue them and overtake them, before 
their face ought notyou to rejoice continually and continually go 
to my solemnities like them who are celebrating a festival? 


* Like them who are gladdened you should go with instrument- 


30 


31 


32 


33 


al music to the mount of the Lord, to the God of Israel. When 
the Lord shall cause the glory of his voice to be heard—when, 
to display the fury of his arm with wrath and indignation and 
consuming fire, he shall utter tremendous thunder, accompa- 
nied with a furious tempest of rain and hail. For by the voice 
of the Lord the Assyrians shall be beaten down by the stroke 
with which he will smite them. 
This indeed he shall have from all around him—from 
every place whence they hada hope of that assistance on which 


he relied, they will with timbrels and the kithara fight against 


him, after his rout. Of thee he will previously demand (and 
hast thou not provided for his reign) a deep valley and wood 


laid up in piles; the wrath of the Lord will be fire and wood 


in abundance like a valley burning with brimstone. ὦ 


XXXI. Sect. 5. ALAS! They went down to Egypt for help! 


They trusted in horses and chariots; for they have many and 


their cavalry is very numerous; and did not rely on the Holy 


One of Israel, nor did they ask counsel of the Lord. There. 
fore he in his wisdem brought evils on them:. and that his 
word may not be slighted, he will rise up against the houses 
of wicked men and against this hope of theirs which is vain 
against an Egyptian—a man, not a god—against the flesh of 
horses in which there is no help. When the Lord shall lay his 
hand upon them, then shall these helpers fail and be all. de- 
troyed together. Because the Lord hath thus said to me, : 

“* As the lion or the young lion will roar over the prey 
which he hath taken; and will repeat his roaring over it, until 
the mountainsare filled with his voice, and the multitudeare sub- 
dued and terrified athis wrath: so will the Lord of Hosts descend 
to encamp on this mountain—on this Sion—on the summits 
thereof : as birds hover over their young, so will the Lord of 


_ Hosts protect Jerusalem; he will hover over it and spring for- 


ward, and will protect and save it.” 
Therefore turn to him, O children of Israel, who are tak- 
ing deep and wicked counsel. . 


Ch. XXXH. ς ὦκὰ ESATAS. 


7 


Because men will in that day reject the works of their 
hands—their idols of silver and gold which their hands have’ 


~ made; therefore Assur shall fall—not by the sword of a man 


to 


of valour, nor shall the sword of a mortal devour him; and he 
shall flee—(not from the face of the sword) and the young 


‘men shall be for destruction. For with a rock they shall be en- 


closed as with a rampart, and shall be subdued; and he who 
fleeth shall be taken. 

Thus saith the Lord, ya ΗΒ 

‘Happy he who hath a seed in Sion and a family in Jeru- 
XXXII. salem! For behold a righteous king shall reign 
and chiefs shall rule with justice. And this man will be one 
who hideth his words, and he will be hid as froma rolling 
flood. And he will be seen on Sion like a glorious stream ina 
thirsty land. And they shall no more put confidence in men; 
but shall apply their earsto hear. And the heart of the weak 
will listen attentively; and trifling tongues will soon learn to 
speak peace. And they will no more order the fool to govern, 
nor shall thy servants any more command silence. For the fool 
will speak foolishly, and his heart will devise’ vain things; that 
he may commit iniquity, and utter error before the Lord in or- 
der to scatter hungry souls: and the thirsty souls he will send 
away empty. For the counsel of the wicked will devise un- 


‘Jawful devices to destroy the poor with unjust pleas; and to 


baffle the pleas of the poor in judgment. But the pious have 
counselled with understanding; and their counsel shall be es- 
tablished.” 

Sect. 6 (p) ARISE ye rich women and hear my yoice, 
hearken to my words ye daughters of hope! make mention of 
a day of a year in sorrow, with hope. The vintage is destroyed; 
it hath failed! must it never come again any more? 

Be confounded; be grieved, ye confident women! strip; 
make yourselves bare; gird your loins and beat your breasts, 
for the lovely field—for the fruitful vine. In this land of my 
people shall spring up the thorn and the briar, and joy peal be 
taken from every dwelling. 

O rich city! O houses wholly forsaken! They shall abandon 
city, riches, lovely houses; and until the age the villages shall _ 
be dens—the joy of wild asses, the pastures of flocks, till a 
spirit come on you from on high. Then willa desert become a 


Ch. XXXII ESAIAS. 


16 Charmel and Charmel will be accounted a forest; and judg- 
ment will make a lasting abode in the desert, and righteous- 

17 ness will dwell in Charmel. And the works of righteousness 
shall be peace; and righteousness shall enjoy rest. As for them 
who have kept up their confidence till that age—his people 

18 shall then inhabit a city of peace and dwell secure, and they 

19 shall enjoy rest with riches. Though the hail descend, it shall 
not reach you: and they who dwell in the forest shall be secure 

~as they in the plain. 
(c) Happy they who sow on every water where the ox and 
the ass: treadeth! | 

XXXII. (p) Woe to them who miserably afflict you; but 
none can make you miserable. Even the deceiver doth not 
deceive you. The deceivers shall be taken and delivered up 
and like a moth on a garment they shall be crushed. 

2 (c) O Lord, have mercy upon us! for in thee we have 
placed our trust. The seed of the rebellious were for destruc. 

3 tion: but thou wast our safety in the time of trouble. At the 
terror of thy voice peoples were confounded; for fear of thee 
the nations were dispersed. 

4 (p) Now your spoils are to be gathered; the spoils both 
of small and great. As if one were gathering locusts, so will 
they insult you. 

5 (c) Holy is the God who dwelleth on high. 
(p) Was Sion filled with judgment and justice? 
6 (c) By law they were to be delivered up; In treasures is 
our safety. ! 
(p) Let there be there wisdom and knowledge and piety 
towards the Lord, (These are the treasures of righteousness; ) 
7 then behold with the dread of you they shall be terrified— 
they, of whom you have been afraid, will for fear of you raise 
a grievous cry. Messengers will be sent weeping bitterly, 
8 suing for peace. For their highways shall be deserted, the 
dread of the nations is at an end and the treaty with them 
broken. And you will account them common men. 
9 The land mourned; Lebanon was ashamed; Saron was be- 
come fens; Galilee and Charmel were bare. 
10 “Now will Larise, saith the Lord, now shall I be elorified; 
AL now shall Tbe exalted; now you shall see: now you shall feel. 


Ch. XXXIV. . ESAFAS. Ὁ 


The strength te your spirit shall be vain; a fire shall utterly 

12 devour you; and nations shall be burned up, as thorns ina 

13 field are rejected and burned. The far distant nations shall 
hear what I have done, they who are near shall know my pow- 

14 er. The transgressors in Sion are fied; terror will seize the un- 
godly. Who will tell you that a fire is kindled? who will pro- 

15 claim to you the place which is everlasting? He who is walk- 
ing in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth 
iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes;* 
who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; 

16 who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice: he 
shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread awe be 
given him and his water shall not fail. 

17 (p) You shall see a king with glory; your eyes oe see a 

8 far distant land; your soul will meditate on terror. Where are 
the scribes? Where the counsellors? Where is he who num- 

19 bereth them who are fed—the people small and great? A 
they gave no counsel; nor did they understand him whose 
voice was so low that a despised people could not hear, and he 
who heareth hath not knowledge. . 

20 (c) Behold the city Sion is our salvation. Thine eyes will 
look upon Jerusalem. It is a rich city composed of tents which 
should not be shaken; nor should the pins of her tabernacle 
ever be moved, nor its cords broken. μ 

9] (p) Because the name of the Lord is great to you, it shall 
be to you a place of streams and canals broad and spacious. 

(c) Thou shalt not pass this way; nor shall a galley with oars 

22 cross; for my God is great and will not pass me by. The Lord 
our judge—the Lord our chief —the Lord our king—the 
Lord will himself save us. 

23. (p) Thy tackling broke, for they had no siftngth, thy 
mast gave way. It will not support the sails, nor rear a stand- 
ard until it be delivered up for a spoil; therefore many who _ 
are lame will seize the prey: but let not the people who dwell 
among these say, “Iam wearied out” for their sin is forgiven _ 
them. ᾿ r ; 

XXXIV. Sect. 7 ATTEND O nations, and hearken ye chiefs. | 
Let the earth hear and the inhabitants thereof—The world and _ 


4. 


“ ΕΝ 


Ch. XXXIV. ~~ ESAIAS. 


2 the people who are therein. Because the wrath of the Lord is 

against all the nations, and. his anger against this number of 
3 them to destroy them and deliver them up to slaughter; there- 

fore their wounded and dead shall be cast out, and the stench 

of them shall ascend; and the mountains shall be drenched 
4 with their blood; and all the powers of the heavens shall waste 
away; and the heaven shall be rolled up like a scroll and all the 
stars shall fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a 
fig tree. δ ; 

(J) My sword hath drunk deep. in the heaven; behold it 
shall come down on Idumea and on the people justly doomed 
to destruction. 

6 (p) The sword of the Lord hath been glutted with blood; 
it is pampered with suet—with the blood of he-goats and 
lambs, and with the suet of goats and rams. Because there is 
a sacrifice for the Lord in Bosor, anda great slaughter in Idu- 

7 mea; therefore the fatlings shall fall with them, namely the 
rams and the bulls. And the land shall be drenched with blood, 

8 and glutted.with their suet. For it is the day of the Lord’s 
vengeance, and the year fora judicial retribution to Sion: 

.. 9 and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into 
10 sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and 
night, and which shall not be extinguished: for a long time 

the smoke of it shall ascend. During its generation it shall be 

11 desolate. And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises 
and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a 
line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell. The 

12 chiefs of it shall be no more; for its kings and its nobles shall 
18. be for destruction. And in their cities shall spring up brakes; 
~ and brambles shall be its fortresses? and they shall be cots 
14 for Sirens, and for the ostrich’s court. And demons shali 
meet onocentaurs; and bellow one to the other. Onocen. 
taurs shall there enjoy repose having found for themselves a 

15 place of rest. There the porcupine hath made its nest; and the 
__ land hath safely kept its young. There,the deer have assem- 
16 bled and seen each other’s face. I counted them and there is 
not one of them lost. They have not had occasion to seek each 

_ other: for the Lord hath issued orders to them; and his spirit 
17 hath brought them together. And he will himself cast the lots 


Or 


Ch. XXXV. XXXVI. ESAITAS. 


for them, his hand hath meted the place fon them to feed.— 
For a long time you shall inherit it. ¢ 
(c) For generations of generations let them rest therein. 
XXXV. Rejoice, O desert ; shout for j joy, O thirsty desert, 

2 and blossom like a lilly. Let the deserts of Jordan also bloom 
and rejoice; to it hath been given the glory of Lebanon and 
the honour of Charmel. And my people shall see the glory 
of the Lord, and the majesty of our God. 

Be strong ye hands which are feeble, and ye knees which 
are without heneineatl Take comfort ye who are faint hearted; 
take courage, be not terrified; behold our God retributeth 
judgment ; he will indeed make retribution—he himself will 
5 come and save us. Then shall be opened the eyes of the 
6 blind; and the ears of the deaf will hear. Then will the lame 
bound like a hart; and the stammering tongue will speak plain. 

Because water is burst forth in the desert, and torrents in ~ 
a thirsty land ; therefore the glowing sand shall become pools, 
and for the thirsty soil there will be fountains of water. The 
reedy beds and the pools there will be the joy of birds. ‘There 
will be there a pure highway, which shall be called The Holy 
way. And the unclean shall not come there; nor shall there be 
there an unclean way. But as for the dispersed, they shall 
9 travel it, and shall not be led astray. No lion shail be there; nor 

shall any ravenous beast come up thither, nor ever be found 
there ; but in it the redeemed will walk, and they who have _ 
been collected for the Lord. They indeed shall return and © 
come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy shall crown their 
head: for on their heads will be praise and rapture ; and glad- 
ness shall have full possession of them. Pain and sorrow and 
sighing are fled. 


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XXXVI. IN the fourteenth year of the reign of E:zekias, Sen- 
nacherim king of the Assyrians came up against the fortified 

2 cities of Judea, and took them. And the king of the Assyrians 
sent Rabsakes from Lakes to Jerusalem, to king Ezekias, 
with a great army. And he halted at the canal of the upper 

3 pool in the high way to the fuller’s field. And to him went out 
_Eliakim the son of Chelkias the steward, and Somnas the 
4, scribe, and Joach son of Asaph the recorder. And Rabsakes. ἡ 


Ch. XXXVI. ESAIAS. 


said to them, Tell Ezekias, Thus saith the great king, the king 
5 of the Assyrians, On what hast thou placed confidence? Not- 
withstanding negociation and fair speeches, are not preparati- 
ons making for war? Now therefore on whom hast thou relied, 
- 6 that thou rebellest against me ? Behold thy reliance is on that 
staff—that staff of reed—that broken reed, Egypt ; on which 
if a man lean, it will pierce his hand and go through it. Such 
7 is Pharao king of Egypt to all who rely on him. But if you 
8 say, “Our confidence is in the Lord our God; ” were you 
now in close connexion with my master the king of the As- 
syrians ; and were I to give you two thousand horses ; could 
9 you put riders on them? How then can you revolt and affect 
to be petty princes. Those are reduced to slavery who have 
10 trusted inthe Egyptians for charioteers and cavalry. Besides, 
are we now come up without the Lord against this land to war 
_against it? The Lord hath said to me, Go up against this land 
and destroy it. | 
Il Then Eliakim and Somnas and Joach said to him, Speak 
to thy servants in Syriac, for we understand it. Therefore 
speak not to us in the Jewish language. Why speakest tho 
to the ears of the men on the walls ? 
12 Thereupon Rabsakes said to them, Hath my. lord sent me 
to your lord or to you to speak these words? Was it not to 
ose men—to them who are stationed on that wall, that they 
may eat dung and drink urine, both they and you together ? 
13 ‘Then Rabsakes stood and cried witha loud voice in the Jew- 
_ ish language and said, Hear the words of the great king, the 
14 king of the Assyrians, Thus saith the king, Let not Ezekias 
15 deceive you with speeches. He cannot deliver you. And let 
not Ezekias say to you, God will déliver you; and this city 
shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assy- 
16 rians. Hearken not to Ezekias. Thus saith the king of the As- 
syrians, If you wish to be happy, come out to me; and eat, 
every one, of his own vine and his own figetrees, and drink water 
17 from your own cisterns, until I come and take you to a land 
like your own—a land of corn and wine, and of bread and 
A8 vineyards. Let not Ezekias deceive you saying, God will de- 
liver you. Have the gods of the nations, delivered every one 


his own country out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians ? 
VOL. 11]. P 


Ch. XXXVII. ESAIAS. 
19 Whereis the God of Emath and Arphath ? And where is the 


20 


21 


22 


God of the city Eppharuim? Were they able to deliver Sa- 
maria out of my hand? Who is there of all the gods of the 
nations who hath delivered his country out of my hand, that 
God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? But they were 
silent and none answered him a word, because the king had 
given a charge that none should answer. 

Then Eliakim the son of Chelkias the steward, and Som- 
nas the secretary at war and Joach the son of Asaph the re- 
corder went to Ezekias with their clothes rent and told him 


XXXVI. the words of Rabsakes. And when Ezekias heard 


2 


Or 


them he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and went up to 
the house of the Lord. And he sent Eliakim the steward and 
Somnas the scribe and the elders of the priests clothed with 
sackcloth to Kisaias son of Amos the prophet with this message 
to him, Thus saith Ezekias, “ This day is a day of trouble and 
of reproach and of rebuke and of wrath; for pangs are come on 
a woman in travail and she hath not strength to bring forth. 
That the Lord thy God may attend to the message of Rab- 
sakes which the king of the Assyrians hath sent to reproach 
the Living God; and refute the words which the Lord thy 
God hath heard, thou shouldst pray to the Lord for these poor 
remains.”’? So when the servants of kmg E.zekias came to 


᾿ Esaias he said to them, ‘‘ Thus shall you say to your lord, Thus 


saith the Lord, Be not terrified at the words which thou hast 
heard; with which the messengers of the king of the Assy- 
rians have reproached me. Behold Iam about to put such a 
spirit in him, that he having heard news will return to his 
own country: and he shall fall by the sword im his own land.” 

So Rabsakes returned and found the king of the Assy- 
rians besieging Lobna, for he heard that he had removed from 
Lachis; and Thoraka king of the Ethiopians came out to give 
him battle. Upon hearing this, he retreated, and sent messen- 
gers to Ezekias, saying, Thus shall you say to Ezekias king 
of Judea, Let not thy God, on whom thou reliest, deceive 
thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of 
the king of the Assyrians. Hast thou not heard what the kings 
of the Assyrians have done? How they have destroyed all the 
land? And shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the na- 


Ch. XXXVII. ESAIAS. 


tions delivered them whom my ancestors destroyed? Either, 
_ Goza or Charran or Raphath which are in the country of 
13 ‘Theemath? Where are the kings of Emath? And where those 
of Arphath? And where those of the city Eppharuim, of Ana- 
gougana? ᾿ | 
14 When Ezekias received the letter from the messengers 
and had read it, he went up-to the house of the Lord; and 
15 having spread it before the Lord, Ezekias prayed to the 
16 Lord, saying, ‘‘O Lord of Hosts the God of ‘Israel, who art 
enthroned on the cherubim! Thou alone art the God of every 
17 kingdom of the world. Thou hast made the heaven and the 
earth. Incline, O Lord, thine ear! O Lord, hearken ! Open, O 
Lord, thine eyes! O Lord, look down and behold the words 
of Sennacherim which he hath sent to reproach the Living 
18 God. In truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid 
waste this whole inhabited land and the country of those [here 
19 mentioned] and have cast their idols into the fire; for they 
were not gods; but works of mens’ hands, stocks and stones; 
20 therefore they destroyed them. But now, O Lord, our God, 
save us out of their hands that every kingdom of the earth 
21 may know, that thou alone art God.” Thereupon Esaias son 
of Amos was sent to Ezekias and said to him, Thus saith the. 
Lord the God of Israel, “1 have heard the prayer whichthou hast 
made to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians. 
This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning 
him, 
22 “The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee and 
mocked thee; at thee the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken 
23 her head; whom hast thou reproached and provoked? or 
against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, (without lifting up 
24 thine eye to the Holy One of Israel?) That by thy messengers 
thou hast reproached the Lord? For thou hast said, By the 
multitude of my chariots, I have ascended the height of moun- 
tains, and to the utmost limits of Libanus, and cut down the | 
lofty cedar and beautiful cypress, and entered the stately part 
25 of the forest. I have laid bridges and dried up waters and 
26 every collection of water.” ‘‘ Hast thou not heard those things 
of old which I have done? From ancient times I gave com- 
mand and have now pointed out to lay waste nations in strong 


Ch. XXXVIIL. ESATAS. 


27 places and them who dwell in fortified cities. I weakened their - 
hands and they were dried up, and became like dry grass on: 

28 house tops, and like a blasted ear of corn. And now I know 

29 thy resting place and thy going out and thy coming in. As the 
rage with which thou hast been inflamed, and thy bitterness 

30 are come up tome; I will therefore puta hook in thy nose and 
a bridle in thy jaws; and turn thee back by the way in which 
thou camest.’’ 

31 Now this shall be a sign to thee. Eat this year what thou 
hast sown, and in the second year what is left; but in the third 
year sow ye and reap; plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof; 

32 for they who are left shall continue in Judea. They shall strike 
root downwards and bear fruit upwards. For they of Jerusa- 
lem shall be left and they of mount Sion shall be saved. The 

33 zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this. Therefore thus saith 
the Lord, With regard to the king of the Assyrians, he shall 
not enter this city; nor shoot an arrow against it; nor present 

34 against it a shield; nor enclose it with a rampire. But by the 
way which he came, by the same he shall return; and into this 

35 city he shall not come. Thus saith the Lord, I will cover this 
city with my shield to save it for mine own sake and the sake 
of my servant David. 

36 80 anangel of the Lord went forth and slew of the camp 
of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And 
when they arose in the morning they found all these dead bo- 

37 dies. Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated 

38 and went and dwelt in Ninive. And as he was worshipping, in his 
house, Nasarach his ancestor; Adramelech and Sarousar his 
sons smote him with their swords; and, they having made their 

escape to Armenia, Asardan his son reigned in his stead. 

XXXVITI. At that time Ezekias was seized with a mortal 
sickness; and Esaias son of Amos, the prophet, came to him 
and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Give orders respecting 
thy household, for thou art at the point of death and shall not 
2 live. Thereupon Ezekias turned his face to the wall and pray- 
3 ed tothe Lord, saying, “Ὁ Lord, remember how I have 
walked before thee with truth and with an upright heart, and 
have done the things which are pleasing in thy sight.” And 

4 Ezekias wept bitterly. Anda word of the Lord came to Esaias 

5 saying, Go and say to Ezekias, Thus saith the Lord, the 


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God of thy father David, I have heard thy prayer and seen 
thy tears, Behold I will add to thy term fifteen years. And I 
will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of 
the Assyrians and cover this city with my shield. And this 
shall be a sign to thee from the Lord, that God will perform 
this decree. Behold 1 will bring back the shadow of the steps 
the ten steps of the house of thy father, which the sun hath gone 
down. I will bring back the sun those ten steps. So the sun re- 
ascended the ten steps which the shadow had gone down. 

The prayer of Ezekias, king of Judea, when he had been sick, 

and was recovered from his sickness. 

I said in the height of my days I shall go down to the gates 
of Hades, I shall leave the years which remain. I said, I shall 
no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; 1 
shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall 
behold man no more. Iam cut off from my generation, I have 
left the remainder of my life. He is gone and departed from 
me, like one striking a tent, having just pitched it. My soul 
within me was like a web which the weaver was in act to se- 
ver from the loom. 

In that day I was delivered up until morning as to a lion. 
So did he break to pieces all my bones. For from day to 
night I was delivered up. Like a swallow so let me twitter; 
and like a turtle dove so let me moan; for mine eyes were too 
weak to look up to the vault of heaven—to the Lord who hath 
rescued me and taken from me the sorrow of my soul. Of this 
indeed thou, O Lord, wast told, and thou hast restored my 
breath and I am comforted and live. For thou hast rescued 
my soul that it should not perish; and hast cast behind thee 
all my sins. For those in the mansion of the dead cannot praise 
thee; nor can the dead return thee thanks, nor they in Hades 
hope for thy kindness, The living will praise thee even as I do; 
for from this day I shall raise up children, who will proclaim 
this lovingkindness of thine, O God of my salvation; and I will 
never cease praising thee with a psaltery, all the days of my 
life over against the house of God. 

Now Esaias had said to Ezekias, Take a cake of figs and 
bruise and apply it as a poultice and thou shalt recover. Where- 
upon Ezekias said, Let this be a sign to E.zekias, that I shall 
go up tothe house of God. 


Ch. XXXIX. XL. ESATAS. 


XXXIX., AT the time when Marodach Baladan the son of 
Baladan the king of Babylon sent letters and ambassadors and. 
2 presents to EXzekias (for he heard that he had been-sick unto 
death and had recovered: ) and E.zekias was rejoiced at their ar- 
rival and shewed them the house of Nechotha and that of the sil- 
ver and of the gold; and that for stacte, and for perfumes and for 
myrrh; and all the treasure houses and all that he had in his trea- 
3 suries; there being nothing in his house nor in all his dominion 
which Ezekias did not shew them; Esaias the prophet thenwent 
to king Ezekias and said to him, What say those men? And, 
whence are they come to thee? And Ezekias said, They are 
4 come to me from a far distant land, from Babylon. And Esai- 
as said, What have they seen in thy house? To which Ezeki- 
as replied, T’hey have seen all that are in my house. There is 
nothing in my house which they have not seen: nay, they have 
5 seen also what are in my treasuries. Thereupon Esaias said to 
him, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts! Behold days are 
coming, when they shall seize all that are in thy house. And 
all that thy fathers have collected even to this day shall go to , 
Babylon; and nothing shall be left behind. Moreover God hath 
said, That of thy children whom thou shalt beget, they will 
take some and make them eunuchs in the house of the king of 
the Babylonians. And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the 
word of the Lord wihch he spake: let there be, I pray, peace 
and righteousness in my days. 4 


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XL. Sec. 1 COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith 

2 God: O priests, speak to the understanding of Jerusalem; com- 

fort her; for her humiliation is accomplished; her iniquity is 

pardoned: for she hath received from the hand of the Lord 
[blessings] double to the punishment of her sins. 

8 A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way 

4 of the Lord; make straight the roads for our God. Let every 

valley be filled up, and every mountain and hill be levelled: and 

let all the crooked be made a straight road, and the rough way, 

5 smooth plains: and the glory of the Lord will appear: And ail 

flesh shall see the salvation of God. For the Lord hath spoken. 

6 “Α voice of one saying, Proclaim.” Wherefore I said, 

What shall I proclaim? “All flesh is grass; and all the glory of 


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man as a flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower 
fallen; but the word of our God will endure forever.” 

Ascend a lofty mountain, thou who proclaimest good news 
to Sion: exalt thy voice with strength, thou who bringest glad 
tidings to Jerusalem: raise it up; be not afraid; say to the cities 
of Juda, Behold, your God! behold the Lord! The Lord is 
coming with majesty; and his arm with dominion. Behold his 
reward is with him; and his work, before him. Like a shep- 
herd he will tend his flock; and with his arm he will gather the 
lambs, and comfort the ewes that are with young. 

Who hath measured the water with his hand, and the hea- 
ven with a span and the whole earth with a hand breadth? Who 
hath weighed the mountains in scales and the dales with a ba. 
lance? Who hath known the mind of the Lord? and who hath 
been of his counsel to teach him? or whom hathhe consulted that 
he might instruct him? or who hath pointed out judgment to 
him? or who hath shewn him the way of knowledge? If all the 
nations are as a drop from a cask; and are accounted as the 
turning of a balance—may be reckoned as spittle; if Lebanon is 
not sufficient for a fire, nor all the beasts sufficient for an ho- 
mage offering: and all the nations are as nothing and reckoned 
as nothing: to whom have you likened the Lord? and to what 
likeness have you compared him? Hath a carpenter when he 
hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted 
gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him? for the 


carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire 


wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved. 
Will you not know? will you not hear? hath it not been told 
you from the beginning? have you not known the foundations 
of the earth? He it is, who occupiecth the circuit of the earth; 
and the inhabitants thereon are as grasshoppers. He it is, whoes- 
tablished the heaven as an arch, and spread it out as a tent to 
be dwelt in; who giveth chiefs as a nothingness to govern: 
and hath made the earth as a mere nothing. For they could not 
plant nor could they sow, nor could their root strike into the 
ground; he blew upon them and they withered, and a whirlwind 
will sweep them away like stubble. Ὁ | 

Now therefore to whom have you likened me; that I may 
be exalted? said the Holy One. Raise your eyes upwards and 


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take a view: who hath displayed all those? He who bringeth out ° 


his host by number can call them all by name. On the account 
of abundant glory, by reason of the mightiness of his power 
he hath in no wise escaped thy notice; wherefore, thou, Jacob, 
shouldst not say, yet what hast thou, O Israel, spoken? ‘“My 
way is hidden from God” and, ‘‘My God hath put off my cause 
and is gone.”’ Hast thou then not known? hast thou not heard? 
The everlasting God, the God who fitted up the ends of the 
earth, cannot hunger, nor can he be weary; nor can his under- 
standing be searched out. He it is who giveth strength to the 
hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. For 
youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen war- 
riors will become strengthless; but they who wait upon God 
shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers 
like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march 
on and shall not faint. 


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Archons will gather new strength. Let them draw near and 
confer together, then let them announce judgment. 

Who raised up righteousness from the East—called upon 
it to attend his steps? when he marcheth on, he will exhibit it 
before nations and confound kings and dash their swords to 
the ground, and their bows shall be driven away like stubble. 
When he pursueth them, the road for his feet shall pass 
through to peace. Who hath performed and done these things? 
He who called that righteousness—who from the generations 
of the beginning is calling it—I God the First, and to the suc- 
ceeding ages, THE I AM. 

. The nations saw and were affrighted; the ends of the earth 
drow near and came together. Δ νειν one is determining to 
help his neighbour and. his brother, and one will say, The 
carpenter had strength, so had the smith who beateth with a 
hammer and plateth it. Sometimes indeed one will say, “‘It is 
a beautiful composition?”’ These things they made strong with 
nails; they will fix them up that they may not be moyed: but 
thou Israel my servant; thou Jacob, whom I have chosen; 


thou seed of Abraham whom I loved! have I not taken thee . 


from the ends of the earth, and from the speculations thereof 
called thee, and said to thee, Thou art my servant I have cho- 


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sen thee and have not forsaken thee. Fear not, for I am with 
thee; be not.led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened 
thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right 
hand. Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and con- 
founded; for they.shall be as nothing and all thine opponents 
shall be destroyed. Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find 
the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. 
For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against 
thee shall be no more. For Iam thy God, who have hold 
of thy right hand, and who say to thee, Fear not, O Jacob, 
O diminutive Israel! I have helped thee, saith thy God, 
who redeemeth thee, O Israel. Behold I have made thee 
like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pige- 
ons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to 
small pieces, and make them like dust: and thou shalt win- 
now them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirl- 
wind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened 
in the sanctuaries of Israel; and the poor and the needy 
shall exult with joy: for when they shall seek water and 
there shall be none, and their tongue is parched with thirst; I 
the Lord their God, I the God of Israel will hear and will not 
forsake them; but will open rivers on the mountains, and foun- 
tains in the midst of plains: I will turn the wilderness into wa- 
tery fens, and with streams refresh the thirsty ground. And I 
will plant in the dry wilderness the cedar and box, the myrtle 
and cypress and elm: that they may see and know, and consi- 
der and understand at once that the hand of the Lord hath 
done these things; even what the Holy One of Israel hath 
pointed out. 

The trial of you is near, saith the Lord God; your coun- 


2 0115 are nigh at hand, saith the king of Jacob; let them draw 


near and tell you what will happen, or such things as these be- 
fore they come to pass. Tell us that we may apply our under- 
standing, and that we may know the final issue, and the train 
of events leading to it. Tell us, announce to us the things in 
successive train to the issue; and we will acknowledge that 
you are gods. Confer favours and inflict punishments, and we 
will pay respect and see at once, that wherever you are thence 
is your operation. 
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XLII. ESAIAS. 


They have chosen you an abomination from the earth ; 
but 1 have raised up that one from the north, and that other 
from the risings of the sun; they shall be called by my name: 
let the Archons come, and as the clay of a potter—even as a 
potter treadeth clay so shall you be trampled down. Who now 
can. tell these things from the beginning, that we may know, 
even these things before hand: that we may say, The predic- 
tion is true. There is none who predicteth, nor doth any one 
hear your words. I will first give notice to Sion and I will 
comfort Jerusalem on the way. For of the nations behold 
there is none, and of the idols none giveth warning. And 
should I ask them, Whence are you? They could not make 
me any answer. For are these they who made you? They 
are indeed those who vainly lead you astray. 


XLII. Sect. 2. (J) JACOB is my servant, I will uphold him, 


Israel is my chosen one, my soul hath embraced him ; I have 
put my spirit upon him; he will publish judgment to the na- 


2 tions. He will not scream, nor urge with vehemence : nor 


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will his voice be heard abroad in the streets. A bruised reed 
he will not break, nor extinguish a dimly burning taper; but 
will publish judgment to establish truth. He will shine out, 
and shall not be broken until he hath established judgment on 
the earth. In his name therefore let the nations trust. 

. Thus saith the Lord, the God who made the heaven and fix- 
edit; who established the earth and the things therein and who 
eiveth vital air to the people on it, and breath to them who tread 
thereon; I the Lord God have called thee for saving mercy, and 
Twill take hold of: thy hand and strengthen thee; for I have 
given thee for the covenant of a race—for the light of nations : 
to open the eyes of the blind; to lead out from chains them who 
are bound, and out of prison, them who are sitting in darkness. 
Iam the Lord God; this is my name: this glory of mine 
I will not give to another, nor these powers of mine to the 
graven idols. With regard to the former predictions, behold 
they are come to pass; and these are new things which I 
now declare; and. before their promulgation, they are revealed 
to you. 


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(p) Sing to the Lord a new song, ye, his government! praise 
his name, ye from the utmost border of the earth, ye who go 
down on the sea and navigate it, ye islands, and ye who dwell 
therein. Let the desert be glad and the villages thereof; the 
folds for flocks and them who inhabit Kedar : let the inhabi- 
tants of Petra rejoice ; let them shout from the top of the 
mountains : to this God let them ascribe glory ; let them pro- 
claim his powers among the isles. The Lord God of Hosts 
will come forth and tread down battle ; he will rouse up his 
zeal, and shout against his enemies with majesty. 

(J) I have been silent; but shall I always keep silence 
and forbear? Like a woman in travail I have endured suffer. 
ing ; I will strike with astonishment and wither at once. I will 
lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all the herbage on 
them. I will make rivers islands and dry up pools, and lead 
the blind in a way which they know not, and cause them to 
walk in paths which they have not known. For them I will 
make the darkness light, and the crooked ways a straight road. 
These things I will do, and Iwill not forsake them: but as 
for them they have turned backwards ! be whelmed in shame, 
ye who trust in graven images—who say to the molten images, 
ye are our gods. 

(p) Hear, O ye deaf; and ye blind, look up that you may 
see.-—— 

(J) Who indeed is blind but my servants ? And deaf, but 
those who rule over them ? Even the servants of God are be- 
come blind. You have seen again and again but have not re- 
garded: your ears have been opened, but you did not hear. 

(p) The Lord God came toa determination, that he might 
be justified and might magnify praise. Whereupon I beheld 
and the people were plundered and dispersed: for the snare 
was every where in the private chambers, and in the houses 
also where they had hidden themselves, 'T hey were for a prey 
and there was no rescuer—for a spoil; and there was none 
who said, Restore. Who is there among you who will give 
car to these things ? Attend to those leading causes; for which 
he hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to them who plun- 


a Re oe ce ΡΠ ἘἘΓΗ: 


(J) Jehovah. (p) the prophet. 


Ch. XLII. ESAIAS. 


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dered him. Hath not God, against whom they sinned, and m 
whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would 
not obey—hath not he brought upon them his fierce anger? 
(J) Though war prevailed over them, and they who were 
burning them up were all around, yet they did not, any of them, 


XLII. know, nor lay it to heart. Still however thus saith the 


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Lord, the God who made thee O Jacob, and who formed thee, 
O Israel! fear not. Because I have redeemed thee—have call- 
ed thee by thy name—thou art mine; therefore when thou 
passest through water, I am with thee, and the streams shall 
not overwhelm thee: and when thou passest through fire, 
thou shalt not be burned up—the flame shall not quite con- 
sume thee. 

Because I the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel am 
thy Saviour, I have given Egypt for thy ransom and Ethiopia 
and Soena in thy stead. Because thou hast been precious in 
my sight—hast been honoured and 1 loved thee ; therefore 
I will give men for thee and chiefs for thy life. Fear not. Be- 
cause I am with thee, from the east I will bring thy seed, and 
gather thee together from the west: I will say to the north, 
“Give up” and to the south, ‘‘ Keep thou not back; bring 
my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the 
earth—all that are called by my name.” For I have prepared 
him for my glory, I have fashioned him and made him, and 
have brought out a blind people: for their eyes are as if they 
were blind; and they are deaf, though they have ears. 

(p) All the nations were assembled together ; now let all 
the archons be assembled: can any among them announce 
these things ? Or can any tell you these things before hand ? 
Let them produce their witnesses and be justified, and let them 
hear and tell things true. 

(J) Be you witnesses for me: and as for me I myself am 
a witness saith the Lord God; and this servant of mine whom 
Ihave chosen; that you may know and believe and under- 
stand that with respect to me, The J am, There is no other 
God before me ; and after me none will exist. 1 am God and 
there is no Saviour besides me. I have announced and saved; 
I reproached when there was no strange god among you. You 
are witnesses for me; and I the Lord am still the same God. 


Ch. XLIV. | ESAIAS. 


from the beginning; and there is none who can rescue out of 
14 my hands. I will act; and who can prevent it—Thus saith 
the Lord, the God who redeemed you, the Holy One of Is- 
rael; For your sakes I will send to Babylon, and rouse up all 
who are fleeing ; and the Chaldeans shall be bound in ships. 
15 Tam the Lord God, your Holy One, who pointed out Israel 
your king. 
16 Thus saith the Lord who made a highway inasea, anda path 
17 in the mighty water; who brought out chariots and horses and a 
mighty host, but they lay down to sleep and shall rise no more: 
18 they were extinguished like an extinguished taper. Mention 
not these former things, nor reason from the things of old. Be- 
19 hold I am in act to do new things, which shall now spring up 
_ and you shall know them—I will make a way in the wilderness, 
20 and streams of water in the desert. The wild beasts of the field 
will bless me—the Seirens and the daughters of the ostrich ; 
because I have given water in the wilderness, and flowing 
streams in the desert, to give drink to this race of mine which 
21 I have chosen —my people whom I have preserved to recount 
my praises. 
22 Thad not now called upon thee, Jacob, nor caused thee, 
23 Israel, to weary thyself : thou hadst not brought me thy sheep 
of thy whole burnt offering; nor honoured me with thine in- 
cense offerings: I had not burdened thee with sacrifices of 
24 flour; nor wearied thee with demands of frankincense: nor 
hadst thou purchased with silver perfumes for me ; nor had I 
desired the suet of thy sacrifices: but thou stoodest before 
25 me in thy sins and in thine iniquities. I even I, THE I AM, 
am he who blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; 
26 and of thy sins I will nomore make mention: but do thou 
mention them and let us be judged; do thou first state thy 
transgressions, that thou mayst be acquitted. 
27 Your fathers first, then your chiefs transgressed against 
28 me. When the chiefs polluted my sanctuary, then I gave up 
XLIV. Jacob to be destroyed, and Israel to reproach. But now, 
hear, O Jacob my servant, and thou Israel, whom I have cho- 
2 sen; Thus saith the Lord, the God who made thee, and who 
formed thee from the womb, still thou shalt be helped. Fear 
not, thou my servant Jacol, and thou, beloved Israel, whom 


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T have chosen: for I will give water in their thirst to them who 
are travelling in a desert. I will put my spirit on thy seed, and 
my blessings on thy children; and they shall spring up like 
grass among water, and like a willow by the side of a flowing 
stream. One will say, ‘‘ I belong to God;”’ and another will 
call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write on 
his hand, “1 belong to God,” and will surname himself by 
the name of Israel. 


Sect. 3. THUS saith God, the King of Israel, and his Re- 
deemer, the God of Hosts, I am the first and I am the last : be- 
sides me there is no God. Who is like me? Let him stand up 
and call and announce, and make ready for me: In as muchas 
I have made a man for this age, let them now tell you the 
train of events before they come to pass. Hide not yourselves 
nor be led astray. Have you not heard from the beginning? 
And have I not told you? You are witnesses whether there be 
any God besides me. And have not then the fashioners and 
engravers heard? They are all fools making things to please 
their fancies—things which cannot profit them: but shame 
shall cover these god makers, and all the engravers of these 
useless things. When all by whom they were made are dried 
up; then let all the stupid among men be collected and stand 
together, and let them be confounded and ashamed together : 
for the carpenter sharpened an axe, witha hatchet he model- 
led it; then, he put it into a lathe and with his strong arm fash- 
ioned it. Though he be hungry and faint, he must not drink 
water. 

The carpenters having chosen a piece of wood framed it 
by rule and glued the parts together, and made it in the form 
of a man and with the comeliness of a man, to set it in a house. 
He cut wood from the forest which the Lord planted—a pine 
tree, which the rain had nourished, that it might be fuel for the 
use of man: and having taken some of it he warmed himself; 
and with other pieces they made a fire and baked cakes, and 
of the residue they made gods and worshipped them. Did he 
not burn half of it in the fire, and, with the coals of that half, 
bake cakes; and having roasted meat with it did he not eat and 
was satished; and when warmed say, “ Aha! Iam warmed, I . 


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have enjoyed the fire?” Yet of the residue he made a carved 
god, and worshippeth it, and prayeth to it, saying, “ Deliver 
me, for thou art my God.”’ 

They had not sense to think; for they were so involved in 
darkness that they could not see with their eyes, nor under- 
stand with their hearts: nor did any reason in his mind, nor by 
his understanding recolléct, that he had burned half of it in the 
fire, and on the coals thereof baked cakes, and had roasted 
flesh and eaten, and of the residue had made an abomination; 
so they bow themselves down to it. Know thou that their 
heart is ashes, and they are led astray and none can deliver his 
soul. ‘Take a view of it, will you not say, “‘ There is indeed 
a lie in my right hand?” 

Remember these things, O Jacob, even thou Israel, for 
thou art my servant. I have made thee my servant; therefore 
O Israel do not thou forget me. For, lo! I have made thy 
transgressions vanish like a cloud—and thy sins like the mur- 
ky vapour. Return to me and I will redeem thee, 

(c) Rejoice, Ὁ heavens ! because God hath compassionat- 
ed Israel. Utter sounds of joy, ye foundations of the earth ! 
Burst forth into songs, ye mountains and hills, and all ye trees 
which are thereon! Because God hath redeemed Jacob and 
Israel shall be glorified. 


Sect. 4, (J) THUS saith the Lord, who redeemed thee 
even He who formed thee from the womb; I am the Lord the 
Maker of all things; I alone stretched out the heavens and 
firmly established the earth. Who else can dispel from the 
heart the signs of belly speakers and divinations? I am he who 
turneth sages backwards and maketh their counsel foohsh; but 
establisheth the word of his servant, and verifieth the counsel 
of his messengers—who saith to J erusalem, ‘ Thou shalt be 
inhabited;” and to the cities of Idumea, “ Ye shall be re- 
builded, and in its deserts vegetation shall spring up :”. Who 
saith to the deep, Thou shalt be wasted, and I will dry up the 
rivers : who saith, to Cyrus [I will give | wisdom, and he shal! 
execute all my pleasure. Who saith to J erusalem, ‘‘ Thou 


(ce) the chorus. 


Ch. XLV. ESAIAS. 


shalt be rebuilded and the house dedicated to me I will found. 


XLV. Thus saith the Lord God, For mine anointed, for Cyrus, 


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(whose right hand I have taken hold of that nations may lis- 
ten before him) I will break the power of kings; I will open 
gates before him, and cities shall not be shut up. I will go be- 
fore thee and level mountains; I will break in pieces the gates 
of brass, and burst asunder the bars of iron; and give thee trea- 
sures of darkness—deep, hidden, unseen treasures I will dis- 
close to thee, that thou mayst know, that I, the Lord thy God, 
who calleth thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 

For the sake of my servant Jacob, and of Israel my cho- 
sen one, I will call thee by thy name and receive thee kindly. 
As for thee, thou didst not know me. Because Tam the Lord 
God and there is no God else besides me; I strengthened thee 
when thou didst not know me; that they from the risings of 
the sun and they from its goings down may know, that there is 
no God besides me. I the Lord am God and there is none else. 
It was I who provided light and made darkness; who make 
peace and create evils: I the Lord God am he who doth all 
these things. 

(c) Let the heaven above be glad; and the clouds shower 
down righteousness. Let the earth spring and bloom with 
mercy and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. 

(J) I the Lord am he who created thee. Is any thing en- 
dowed with excellence? I fashioned it like the clay of a pot- 
ter. Will the ploughman plough the ground all the day long? 
Will the clay say to the potter, ‘‘ What art thou making? Or 
the work to the workman, “ Thou hast not hands.’’ Will the 
thing formed reply against him who formed it? Will one say 
to his father, What wilt thou beget? Or to his mother, What 
art thou bringing forth? Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, 
the Holy One of Israel, even he who made the train of events; 
Do you question me concerning my children; and concerning 
the works of my hands give me directions ! It was I whe made 
the earth and man on it: it was I who with my hand establish- 
ed the heaven: it was I who gave direction to all the stars. It 
is I who have raised him up with righteousness to be king; 
and all his ways shall be straight. He shall rebuild this city of 
mine, and send back the captives of this my people, not for 
ransom nor reward, said the Lord of Hosts. 


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Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, That for which Egypt la- 
boured and the traffick of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans men 
of tall stature shall come over to thee; and they shall be thy 
vassals and shall follow thee bound with chains. They will 
come over to thee and pay thee homage and pray to thee be- 
cause God is in thee. 

(c) There is indeed no God besides thee. For thou art 
God and we knew it. The God of Israel is a Saviour: let all 
that oppose him be shamed and confounded and in shame let 
them march along. 

(J) Dedicate yourselves to me, ye islands! The Lord 
hath saved Israel with an everlasting salvation. ‘They shall not 
be put to shame nor confounded any more forever. Thus saith 
the Lord who made the heaven, the same God who displayed 
the earth to view, and who, having made it, parcelled it out : he 
did not make it to be waste, but formed it to be inhabited: I 
am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in se- 
cret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the 
seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. Iam THE I AM, the 
Lord, who speak righteousness and proclaim truth. Assemble 
yourselves together and come; consult together ye who escape 
from among the nations. They are devoid of knowledge, who 
carry the wood—their carved image; and who pray to gods 
which cannot save them. If they will proclaim, let them draw 
near and know at once, who hath published these things from 
the beginning : then let them be announced to you. I am God 
and there is no other besides me ; a just God anda saviour be- 
sides me there is none. Turn to me and ye shall be saved, ye 
from the farthest part of the earth, Iam God and there is none 
else. By myself I swear (righteousness shall proceed from my 
mouth; my words shall not be reversed) that to me every knee 
shall bow and every tongue shall swear, with respect to God, 
saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him, and all that 
make distinctions among them shall be ashamed. On account 
of the Lord they shall be acquitted; and in God all the seed of 
Israel will glory. 


XLVI. — Sect. 5. BEL is fallen; Nabo is broken to pieces. 


Their graven images were a load for wild beasts and cattle. 
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XLVI. ESAIAS. 


You are carrying them bound like a burden on the weary, 


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escape from battle; and as for them, they are ne re: away 
captives ! 

Hearken to me O house of Jacob and all ye remnant of 
Israel, who have been carried from the womb, and instructed 
from childhood to old age; Iam the self existent, even till you 
grow old, I am, 1 sustain you: I made you and I will bear with 
you; I will lift you up and I will save you. To what have you 
likened me? Look! Contrive, ye wanderers! Collecting gold 
from a bag, and silver by weight they will put it in a balance; 
and having hired a goldsmith they made handiworks and 
bowing themselves down they will worship them. They carry 
it on the shoulder and move on ; but if they set it m its place, 
there it remaineth. It cannot move itself. And if any one cry 
to it, it cannot hear, nor can it save him from evils. 

Remember these things and groan; reform, ye who have 
been led astray: return with the heart and remember the things 
of old, that Iam God and there is none besides me, who can 
declare events before they happen, as if they were already ac- 
complished. When 1 have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; 
and all that I have determined, I will effect. Calling from the 
east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes 
which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I-have 
created and made, I have brought it and made its way pros- 
perous. 

Hear’ me, ye who have lost understanding—who are far 
from righteousness! I have brought my saving mercy near; and 
the salvation which is from me I will not delay. I have placed 
in Sion salvation for Israel, for a subject of glory. 


XLVI. Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of 


Babylon! Sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans! for 


2 thou shalt no morebe called tender and delicate! Take a mill- 


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stone and grind corn. Doff thy veil; uncover thy grey locks. 
Make bare thy leg: wade through rivers. Thy shame shall be 
exposed; thy peerads shall be seen. 

This vengeance I will take on thy account and no more de- 
liver thee up to men. Thy deliverer is the Lord of Hosts, his 
name is the Holy One of Israel. 


Ch. XLVI. ESAIAS, 


5 


Sit in compunction: enter into darkness, O daughter of 
the Chaldeans! thou shalt no more be called the strength of a 


6 kingdom. I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my 


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heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew 
them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very hea- 
vy, and saidst, I shall be empress forever. These things did 
not enter thy heart; nor didst thou call to mind what might-at 
last befal thee. Now, therefore, hear these things, thou vo- 
luptuary ! thou who art seated at ease, who thinkest thyself 
secure; who sayest in thy heart; “1 am and there is none else. 
I shall not sit a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.” 
Butnowupon thee shall come these two things, suddenly, in one 
day. The loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly 
on thee, in the midst of thy sorcery, in the full strength of thy 
mighty inchantments. Confiding in thy wickedness thou indeed 
saidst; “I am and there is none else.’ Know thou, the consci- 
ousness of these things and thy whoredom shall be thy shame. 
Thou indeed saidst in thy heart, ‘Iam and there is none else;”? but 
upon thee shall come destruction, and thou shalt not know— 
a pit; and into it thou shalt fall, Yes, upon thee shall come mi- 


_ sery, of which thou shalt not be able to rid thyself: and destruc- 


tion shall come upon thee suddenly of which thou wilt have no 
apprehension, Persist now in thine incantations and in thy 
manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if 
thou canst be benefited by them. Thou hast wearied thyself 
with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save 
thee—let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instant- 
ly coming upon thee. Behold like brambles on a fire they shall 
all be burned up; and shall not deliver their own life from the 
flame, Seeing thou hast coals of fire, sit upon them; will they 
give thee relief? Thou hast wearied thyself with this traffic from 
thy youth, The men have wandered away, every one to his 
own home; but for thee there shall be no safety. 


XLVIU. — Hear these things, ye house of Jacob, ye who are 


called by the name of Israel! ye whoare descendants of Juda! 
ye who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making 


2 mentionof it, but not withtruth, nor with righteousness; and who 


stay themselves on the name of this holy city, and rely for sup- 
port on the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord of Hosts. 


Ch. XLVIII. ESATAS. 


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Thave already told you former things: when they proceed- 

ed from my mouth and were published, I did them speedily: 
and they came to pass. I know that thou art of an untractable 
temper, that thy neck is a sinew of iron and thy brow, brass; 
therefore I told thee beforehand what would come upon thee; 
I published them that thou mightest not say, ‘The idols have 
done this to me,”’ nor say, ‘““The graven or molten images have 
ordered it for me,” you have heard all these things, and did 
not yourselves know them. But now I have made thee hear 
new things, which shall hereafter come to pass. Yet hast thou 
not said, ‘Things done now and not formerly!” Yes, never in 
former days didst thou hear these things. Thou shouldst not 
say, “Indeed I know them.” Thou didst neither knownor didst 
thou believe, nor did I from the beginning open thine ear: for 
T knew that, being in rebellion, thou wilt continue to rebel and 
wilt still be called a transgressor from the womb. 
For mine own name’s sake I will shew thee my wrath, and 
bring upon thee my marvellous things; that I may not cut thee 
off utterly. Behold I sold thee; but not for money; and I have 
rescued thee out of the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake 
I will deal with thee; because my name hath been profaned, 
and my glory I will not give to another. 

Hearken to me, O Jacob! and thou Israel whom I call. I 
am the first and am forever. My hand hath founded the earth, 
and my right hand hath established the heaven. Let me sum- 
mon them and let them stand together. Let them all be assem- 
bled and listen. Who hath told them these things? I who love 
thee have executed thy will on Babylon, to take away the seed 
of the Chaldeans. I have spoken, I have called, I have brought 
him, and have made his way prosperous. Draw near to me 
and hear these things: from the beginning I have not spoken in 
secret. When it was doing I was there. And now the Lord, 
Lord hath sent me and his spirit. 

Thus saith the Lord who hath redeemed thee, the Holy One 
of Israel, I am thy God. I pointed out to thee, how to find the 
way in which thou shouldst walk. And hadst thou hearkened to 
my commandments thy peace would have been like a river 
and thy righteousness like a wave of the sea; and thy seed 
would have been as the sand, and the issue of thy bowels as 


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the dust of the ground. Still however thou shalt not be utterly 
cut off; nor shall thy name perish from before me. Haste out 
of Babylon! flee from the Chaldeans: proclaim the joyful news: 
and let this be published. Proclaim even to the end of the 
earth—Say ‘‘ The Lord hath delivered his servant Jacob; and 
if they shall thirst (for he will lead them through a desert) a 
rock shall be cleft and water shall gush forth, that my people 
may drink.” There is no peace, saith the Lord, for the wicked. 


XLIX. Sect. 6. (M) HEARKEN to me, O isles; and ye 


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nations attend! (After a long time one will stand up saith the 
Lord.) 

From my mother’s womb he mentioned my name and 
made my mouth like a sharp sword and hid me under the co- 
ver of his hand. He made me like a chosen shaft, and in his 
quiver kept me concealed, and said to me, “‘Thou Israel art 
my servant, and by thee I shall be glorified.” Whereupon I 
said, I have laboured in vain; for vanity and for nought I have 
spent my strength; therefore my cause is with the Lord; and 
my labour is before my God. And now thus saith the Lord 
who formed me from the womb. To be his servant to gather 
Jacob to him, and Israel. I shall be gathered and glorified be- 
fore the Lord. And my God will be my strength. Moreover 
he said to me, Is it a great thing for thee to be called my ser- 
vant to re-establish the tribes of Jacob and bring back the dis- 
persion of Israel? Behold I have given thee for the covenant of 
ἃ race—for the light of nations; that thou mayst be for salvation 
to the farthest part of the earth. 

Thus saith the Lord who delivered thee—the God of Isra- 
el, “Hallow him who despised his life, him who was abhorred 
by the nations, the slaves of the Archons. Kings shall see him 
and chiefs shall rise up and they shall worship him for the sake 
of the Lord; because the Holy One of Israel is faithful, there- 
fore I have chosen thee. 

Thus saith the Lord, ‘In an acceptable time I have heark- 
ened to thee, and in a day of salvation helped thee; and have 
formed thee and given thee for the covenant of nations that 
thou mayst reduce the earth to order and possess desolate he- 


μτΠΡρορϑορΤΤΤΤτΠ“ΤῆἷὔἷἝἷ΄ ᾿ς. ..΄΄΄ὖᾧὮὃ!ὕἷἥρἥΡἷἕ “ΠΡ Θ δ  ᾽ΦἝἝἕἝἕἮἣΤἮ᾽Ὗ᾽᾽᾽ 


(Μὴ The Messiah. 


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ritages, saying to them who are in bonds, Go forth; and to 
them who are in darkness, ‘(Come into light.”’ In all the high- 
ways they shall be fed, and there shall be pasture for them in 
all the paths. They shall not hunger nor shall they thirst, nor 
shall the burning wind nor the sun smite them; but he who 
hath compassion on them will comfort them and lead them to 
bursting springs of water. And I will make every mountain a 
highway, and every path a pasture for them. Behold they from 
afar shall come, some from the north and the west and others 
from the land of the Persians.” 

(c) Rejoice O heavens; and let the earth be elad, let the 
mountains resound with bursts of joy; for God hath compas- 
sionated his people, and comforted those of his people who 
were afflicted. 

(M) Hath Sion then said, “The Lord hath quite forsaken 
me,” and, ‘“‘ Why hath the Lord forgotten me?” can a wo- 
man forget her child? or not have compassion on the offspring 
of her womb? Grant that a woman may forget even these, but 
I will not forget thee, said the Lord. Behold I have engraven 
thy walls on my hands; and thou art continually before me. 
And thou shalt be speedily rebuilt by them who destroyed thee; 
and they who laid thee waste shall become thine offspring. Look 
up with thine eyes all around and view them all; behold they 
are gathered together and coming to thee. As I live saith the 
Lord, Thou shalt clothe thyself with them all, as with rai- 
ment, and wrap them about thee as a bride doth her dress. Be- 
cause thy waste and desolate and ruinated places will now be 
too narrow for the inhabitants, and they who devoured thee 
shall be removed far from thee; therefore thy sons whom thou 
hast lost will say in thine ears, This place is too strait for me: 
make room for me, where I may dwell. Whereupon thou wilt 
say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me? I indeed 
was childless.and asvidow, Who then hath brought up these 
for me? I was abandoned and alone; whence then have I these? 

Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand 
to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And 
they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daugh- 
ters on their shoulders: and kings shall be thy foster fathers; 
and their queens thy nursing mothers. And on the face of the 


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ground they shall pay thee homage, and lick the dust of thy 
feet. And thou shalt know that I.am the Lord, and that they 
who wait for me shall not be ashamed. 

(a) Can any one take spoils from a giant ? 

(b) And if any one captivate unjustly shall he be safe. 
For thus saith the Lord, When one captivateth a giant he shall 
take spoils. 

(a) But can one take froma mighty man and be safe ? 

(b) But it is I who vindicateth thy cause, and I will de- 
liver thy children. And they who afflicted thee shall eat their 
own flesh, and drink like new wine their own blood and be 
made drunk ; and all flesh shall know that itis I the Lord who 
delivered thee. And who uphold the strength of Israel. 

Thus saith the Lord, Of what sort was the bill of your 
mother’s divorce with which I divorced her? Or to what cre. 
ditor have Isold you? Behold you were sold for your trans- 
gressions ; and for your iniquities I divorced your mother. 
Why, when. I came, was there no man? And why, when I 
called, did none answer? Is my hand unable to save? Or have 
I no power to rescue? Behold with my rebuke I can dry up 
the sea, and make the rivers a desert, so that the fishes thereof 
shall shrivel for want of water, and die for thirst. I can clothe 
the heaven with darkness, and make its covering like sack- 

cloth. 

The Lord Lord giveth me an instructed tongue, to know 
when it is proper to speak a word. He gave it me in the morn- 
ing; he gave me in addition an ear to hear. And the instruc. 
tion of the Lord, Lord openeth mine ears and I am not rebel. 
lious, nor do I gainsay. My back I have given toscourges, and 
my cheeks to be slapped with an open hand, and I turned not 
my face from the shame of spittles. Indeed the Lord Lord was 
my helper; therefore I was not ashamed, but kept my coun- 
tenance firm as a rock. I knew indeed that I should not be 
confounded, because he who justified me is near at hand.— 
Who is he that contendeth with me? Let him stand up with me 
face to face. Yes, let my accuser, whoever he be, come near 
me. Behold the Lord, Lord will be my advocate; who can do 


eS ΗΝ ΟΝ Se ρρ ὐ δὸ 
(a) An objection stated. (b) The answer. 


Ch. LI. ESATAS. 


me any evil? Behold you shall all wax old hike a mantle, and the 
moth shall consume you. 

Ι0 Who is there among you who feareth the Lord, let him 
hearken to the voice of his servant. Ye who walk in darkness - 
and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord and stay your- 

11 selves on God. Behold you are all kindling a fire and increas- 
ing the flame; walk in the light of your fire and by the flame 
which you have kindled. On my account these things have be- 
fallen you. You shall lie down in sorrow. 

LI. Hearken tome ye who are in pursuit of righteousness 
and who are seeking the Lord. Look at that hard rock which you 
have been hewing, and into that deep pit which you have dig- 

2 ged. Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who brought 

you forth. For he was an individual when I called him; and I 

blessed him and loved him and multiplied him. And now O 

Sion, I will comfort thee. I have indeed comforted all her de- 

solations, and I will make her waste places like a garden; and 

those west of her like the garden of the Lord. In her shall be 
found joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of praise. 

4 Hear me; hear me, O my people, and ye kings; listen to me; 

for from me shall proceed a law; and my judgment shall. be for 

5 the light of nations. My deliverance is approaching speedily, and 

my salvation shall go forth as light; and on mine arm nations will 

6 rely. The islands will expect me and on mine arm they will rely. 

Turn up your eyes to heaven; then look down on the earth 
below! for the heaven is like smoke condensed, and the 
earth shall grow old like a garment, and like those things the 
inhabitants shall perish: but my salvation shall endure forever, 
and.my saving mercy shall never fail. 

7 Hearken to me, ye who know judgment; ye cee in 

whose heart is my law. Fear not the reproach of men, nor be 

overcome by their contempt. For they are like a garment 
which shall be worn out by time, and like woollens which shall 
be devoured by a moth; but my saving mercy shall endure 
forever, and my salvation to generations of generations. 
9 Awake, awake, O Jerusalem! and clothe thyself with the 
strength of thine arm. Awake as at the beginning of day. 

10 Art thou not as the generation of old, which dried up the sea 
—the swelling water ref the deep? Which made the depths of 

11 the sea a road for the delivered and redeemed to pass? For 


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under the guidance of the Lord they shall be brought back, 
and shall come to Sion with joy and everlasting gladness; for 
praise shall crown their head and joy shall overtake them. 
Grief and sorrow and sighing are fled. 

I THE I AM am he who comforteth thee. Recollect what 
thou wast when terrified at a mortal man, and at a son of man 
who are withered like grass; and forgottest the God who made 
thee—him who made the heaven and founded the earth; and 
wast every day in continual dread of the furious countenance 
of thine oppressor. For how did he consult to carry thee away ! 
But where now is the fury of thine oppressor? For when thou 
art saved he shall not stand; nor long continue. Because I thy 
God am he who tempesteth the sea and causeth the billows 
thereof to roar; the Lord of Hosts is my name; I will put my 
words in thy mouth, and cover thee under the shelter of my 
hand with which I made the heaven and founded the earth; and 
say to Sion, Thou art my people. 

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem who hast drunk 
from the hand of the Lord the cup of his indignation. For thou 
hast drunk the cup of horror—the great cup of his wrath; and 
drained it. And of all thy children which thou didst bring 
forth there was not one who comforted thee, nor was there one 
who took hold of thy hand: no, not of all the sons whom thou 
didst raise. Because these things have befallen thee, who will 
condole with thee? Desolation and destruction, famine and the 
sword; who will comfort thee? Thy sons? Some are astounded; 
some asleep at the head of every way, like a parboiled beet ; 
Some are full of the indignation of the Lord, enervated by the 
Lord God. Therefore hear, thou, who hast been humbled, and 
who art drunk, but not with wine. Thus saith the Lord, the 
God who judgeth his people, Behold I have taken out of thy 
hand the cup of horror—the great cup of mine indignation; and 
thou shalt no more drink it again. And I will put it into the 
hands of them, who have injured thee and oppressed thee— 
who have said to thy soul, Crouch down that we may walk 
over thee, when thou hadst bent thy body down level with the 
earth in the street, to them passing along. 


ΔΗ. Sect. 7. AWAKE, awake, O Sion! clothe thyself, O 


Sion, with thy strength, Put on thy glory, O Jerusalem, thon 
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holy city! No more shall the uncircumcised and the unclean 
pass through thee. Shake off the dust, and stand up: assume 
thy seat, O Jerusalem ! Loose the chain from thy neck, O cap- 
tive daughter of Sion! For thus saith the Lord, You were sold 
for nought; and you shall be ransomed, not with money. 

Thus saith the Lord, My people went down to Egypt at 
first to sojourn there; and to the Assyrians they were carried 
by force. Now therefore why are you here? Thus saith the 
Lord, Because my people were taken away for nought, (ex- 
press your amaze; and raise the mournful cry !) 

Thus saith the Lord, On your account my name is conti- 
nually_ reviled among the nations. Therefore in that day my 
people shall know my name. Because I THE I AM, the same 
who am speaking, am at hand, like beauty on the mountains— 
like the feet of one proclaiming peace, like one proclaim- 
ing glad tidings. Because I will cause thy salvation to be pro- 
claimed, Saying, O Sion, thy God will reign; because the voice 
of thy watchmen is lifted up; with thevoice therefore let all at 
the same time express joy. 

(c) Because eyes will look to eyes when the Lord compas- 
sionateth Sion; let the ruins of Jerusalem break out together 
with bursts of joy. Because the Lord hath compassionated her 
and delivered Jerusalem; let the Lord therefore make bare his 
holy arm in the sight of all the nations ! and let all the ends of 
the earth see the salvation come from our God. 

(J) Depart, depart; come out thence, and touch no pollut- 
ed thing. Come out from the midst of her; be clean, ye who 
carry the vessels of the Lord. For you shall not come out in 
haste, nor by flight march along; for the Lord will march be- 
fore you in front; and. the God of Israel will bring up your 
rear. | 

~ Behold my servant will mind and be exalted and highly 
elorified. In the same manner as many will be astonished at 
thee; (so devoid of glory for men will be thine appearance and 
thy glory for the sons of men) so many nations will ex- 


. . press admiration at him; and kings will shut their mouths, be- 


cause they, to whom no publication was made concerning him; 
shall see; and they, who had not heard, will understand. 


ΓΟ ΜΙ ‘LIV: ESAIAS. 


11. (c) O Lord, who hath believed this report of ours, and 
2 to whom hath the arm of the Lord been made manifest? We 


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have made proclamation as ἃ child before him: as a root ina 
thirsty soil, he hath no appearance nor glory. We have seen 
him; and he hath neither appearance nor beauty : but his ap- 
pearance is mean and defective beyond the sons of men. Be- 
ing a man in affliction and acquainted with grief, because his 
countenance was dejected, he was despised and disesteemed. 
This man beareth away our sins; and for us he is in sorrow: 
And we considered him as being in trouble and under a stroke 
and in affliction. But he was wounded for our sins, and afflict- 
ed for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon 
him; by his bruises we are healed. We all like sheep had > 
strayed; every man wandered in his way: and the Lord de- 
livered him up for our sins: and he, on the account of his af- 
fliction, openeth not his mouth. He was led as a sheep to be 
slaughtered. And as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he 
openeth not his mouth. In this humiliation his legal trial was 


_taken away. Who will declare his manner of life. 


(J) Because his life is taken from the earth—for the trans- 
gressions of my people he is led to death; therefore for his fu- 
neral I will give up the wicked, and the rich for his death. Be- 
cause he committed no iniquity, nor practised guile with his 
mouth, and the Lord determineth to purify him from this 
stroke : when his soul shall be given up for a sin offering; of 
you he shall see a seed which shall prolong their days. More- 
over it is the determination of the Lord to remove him from the 
trouble of his soul—to shew him light and fashion him for 
knowledge—to justify the Righteous One who is serving ma- 
ny well, when he shall bear away their sins; therefore he shall 
inherit many and divide the spoils of the strong. 

(p) Because his soul was delivered up to death and he was 
numbered among transgressors and bore away the sins of ma- 
ny and on the account of their iniquities was delivered up; 


ΒΔ rejoice thou barren, who bearest not—break forth with 


shouts of joy, thou who sufferest not the pangs of child birth; 
for many more are the children of the desolate than of her who 


2 hath a husband. For the Lord said, Enlarge the place of thy 


tent and thy curtains; fix up; spare. ‘not; lengthen thy cords 


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and make thy stakes strong. Extend still further to the right 


and left. And thy seed shall inherit nations and thou shalt in- Ὁ 


habit wasted cities. Be not terrified because thou hast been ex- 
posed to shame; nor blush because thou hast been reproach- 
ed. For thou shalt forget the shame of ancient times, and the 
reproach of thy widowhood thou shalt remember no more. 
For the Lord who is thy maker, whose name is the Lord of 
Hosts—even he who delivered thee, shall be called the God of 
Israel, in the whole earth. 

The Lord hath not called thee as a wife forsaken and dis- 
consolate; nor as a wife that hath been hated from her youth. 
Thy God hath said, ‘‘ I left thee for a little while; but with 
great mercy I will compassionate thee: in a short wrath I 
turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting kindness 
T will have mercy on thee.’”? The Lord who delivered thee 
hath said, ‘* From the flood which was in Noah’s time this is 
my purpose—as I solemnly promised him at that time that I 
would no more be angry with the earth on thine account, nor 
in rebuking thee overturn the mountains; and that thy hills 
should no more be moved; so my kindness for thee shall not 
fail, nor shall the covenant of thy peace ever be changed: for 
he said for thee, Be appeased, O Lord.”’ 

(J) O thou afflicted and storm beaten! art thou not com- 
forted? Behold I am preparing for thee carbuncles for thy 
building stones, and the sapphire for thy foundations; and for 
thy battlements I will lay jasper; and crystal, for thy gates; 
and for thy circumambient walls, precious stones: even thy 
sons, all instructed of God; and thy children in great pros- 
perity. And with righteousness thou shalt be rebuilded. Ab- 
stain from injustice and thou shalt not be affrighted; and as for 
terror, it shall not approach thee. Behold proselytes shall come 
to thee for my sake; and they shall sojourn with thee and fly to 
thee. Behold I have created thee, not like a coppersmith blow- 
ing coals and using a tool for the work. But I have created 
thee, not for destruction. Perish every weapon formed against 
thee! I will not prosper it. Though every voice should rise up 
against thee for judgment, thou shalt overcome them all and in 
the trial they shall be condemned. There is an inheritance for 


them who serve the Lord, therefore you are to be just for me, 


saith the Lord. 


Ch. LV. LVI. ESATAS. 


LV. Sect. 8. HO! ye whoare thirsting, come to water ! and 


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ye who have no money, come buy and eat, without money 
and without price, wine and the choicest bread. Why are 
you expending money and labour for that which will not sa- 
tisfy ὃ Hearken to me and you shall eat good things; and your 
soul will be regaled with delicacies. Incline your ears and 
follow in my paths; hearken to me and your soul shall live 
on good things ; and I will make with you an everlasting co- 
venant—the gracious promises to David which are faithful. 


: Behold for a testimony to nations I gave him, a chief and a 


lawgiver to nations, Nations which knew thee not will fly to 
thee, for the sake of the Lord thy God, the Holy One of 
Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 

Seek ye the Lord; and when you find him call upon him. 
And when he draweth near to you; let the wicked man for- 
sake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn 
to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly 
pardon your sins. For my counsels are not as your counsels; 
nor are my ways as your ways, saith the Lord. But distant 
as the heaven is from the earth, so is my way distant from 
your ways ; and your thoughts from my understanding. For 
as the rain when it descendeth, or snow, from the heavens, 
doth not return thither, till it hath watered the earth, and caused 
it to generate and bloom and yield seed for the sower and 
bread for food; so shall it be with my word: when it hath 
proceeded from my mouth, it shall not be reversed, till all 
are accomplished which I willed; and till I prosper thy ways 
and my commandments. For with gladness you shall go forth; 
and with joyfulness you shall be taught: for the mountains 
and hills shall leap for joy, expecting you; and all the trees 
of the field will clap with their branches. And instead of the 
briar, shall spring up the cypress ; and. instead of the thistle, 
shall come up the myrtle. And the Lord shall be for a name, 
and for an everlasting sign which shall not fail. 


LVI. Thus saith the Lord, Keep judgment and practise right- 


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cousness ; for my salvation is near, just ready to come, and 
my saving kindness to be revealed. Happy the man who doth 
these things and the mortal who adhereth to them ; and who 


Ch. LVII. ESAIAS. 


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is careful not to profane my sabbaths, and who ean his 
hands from doing evil. | 
Let not the stranger who cleaveth to the Lord say, “ The 
Lord will separate me from his. people.” Nor let the eunuch 
say, ‘Lama dry tree.” For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, 
Whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things 
in which I delight and adhere to my covenant; I will give 
them, in my house and within my walls, an honourable place 
better than sons and daughters—I will give them an ever- 
lasting name which shall not fail. And with regard to the 
strangers who cleave to the Lord to serve him, and love the 
name of the Lord—to be his man servants and maid servants, 
even all who are careful not to profane my sabbaths and who 


7 adhere tomy covenant; them I will bring to my holy moun- 


tain and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt 
offerings, and their sacrifices shall be acceptable on mine altar; 
for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the 
nations, — 


Sect. 9. THI LORD who gathereth the dispersed of Israel 
said, Because I will gather a congregation for him, Oall ye 
beasts of the field come! O all ye beasts of the forests, devour! 
you see that they are all blind; that they have not knowledge. 
They are dumb dogs, they cannot bark: they are asleep in 
bed, they love to slumber: yet these dogs are of untamed 
appetite ; they can never have enough. They are indeed mis- 
chievous, they have no consideration. They all followed their 
own courses, every one according to his own purpose. You 


LVI... see how a righteous one was destroyed, and no one 


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fayeth it to heart. And righteous men are taken away, and no 
one observeth, that on account of iniquity the righteous one 
was taken away. His sepulture shall be in peace. He is taken 
from among you. | 
But as for you, draw near hither, ye lawless sons}: ye seed 
of adulterers and. of fornication! in what have you indulged 
yourselves? and at whom have you opened your mouth, and at 
whom lolled your tongue? are you. not children of destruction 
—-a lawless race? invoking idols under shady trees, slaying 
your children in the valleys among the rocks? This shall be 


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thy portion—this thy lot—as thou hast poured out libations to 
them and to them offered up sacrifices, shall I not for these 
things be incensed? On a high and lofty mountain thou hast 
made thy bed, and caused thy sacrifice to ascend thither; and 
behind the posts of thy door thou hast set up thy memorial. 
Didst thou think, that, if thou departedst from me, thou 
shouldst have something more? Thou hast loved them who lay 
with thee and multiplied thy fornication with them, and hast 
done it with many who are far from thee; and hast sent ambas- 
sadors beyond thy borders; and humbled thyself even to Hades; 
With thy long journies thou hast wearied thyself and hast not 
said, I will take some rest. Because in thy full strength thou’ 
hast done this; therefore thou shouldst not supplicate me. 

Of whom hast thou been so anxiously afraid that thou hast 
dealt falsely with me, and hast not remembered nor taken me 
into thy thoughts, nor into thy heart? When I saw and ne- 
glected thee thou didst not fear me. Now I will declare my 
righteousness and thine evil deeds which shall not avail thee. 
When thou criest; let them deliver thee in thine affliction. A 
wind indeed shall overtake them all; and a whirlwind shall 
sweep them away. But they who adhere to me shall possess 
the land, and inherit my holy mountain. And they will say, 
Clear the ways before him, remove obstructions out of the road 
of my people. Ἴ 

Thus saith the Most High, who on high inhabiteth eterni- 
ty, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST 
HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, 
and life to them who are of a contrite heart; I will not contend 
with you forever, nor will I be continually angry with you, for 
from me spirit is to proceed and I have made every breathing 
soul. Because of sin I grieved him a little while and smote 
him and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved 
and went his ways sorrowing; I have seen his ways and healed 
him, and comforted him, and given him true consolation; peace 


Upon peace to them near and to them far off. So the Lord said, 


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I will heal them. But the wicked shall be tossed like waves 
and shall not be able to rest. There js no peace, said God, to 
the wicked. 


Ch. LVIII. ESAIAS. 


LVIUI. Sect. 10. (J) CRY aloud and spare not: raise thy 
voice like a trumpet: proclaim to my people their sins, and to 

2 the house of Jacob their iniquities. Day after day they seek 

me, and desire to know my ways; like a people who have prac- 
tised righteousness, and who have not forsaken the ordinance 
of God. They now ask of me a just decision and desire to draw 
near to God. Saying, ‘‘Why have we fasted and thou hast not 
seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast net known.” 
In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures 

4 and goad all them who are under your controul. You fast for 
strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast 
ye for me as to-day that by a cry your voice may be heard? 

5 This isnot such a fast as I have chosen, that a man should af- 
flict his soul for a day. No: though thou shouldst bend thy 
neck like a hook and lay sackcloth and ashes under thee: even 
in that case you are not to call it an acceptable fast. 

6 It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the 
Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obliga- 
tions of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppress- 

7 ed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing: deal 
out thy bread to the hungry, and take into thy house the poor 
who have no shelter; if thou scest one naked, clothe him, and 

8 look not scornfully on dependants of thy race; then shall thy 
light break forth like the morning, and thy remedies shalt 
spring up speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, 

9 and the glory of the Lord will surround thee. Then thou shalt 
cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he 
will say, Lo I am here. | 

If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and de- 

10 cree which occasion murmuring, and from thy soul give bread 

to the hungry and satisfy an afflicted soul; then shall thy light 

spring up in darkness; and thy darkness shall be as the noon 

11 day: and thy God will be with thee continually; and thou shalt 

be satisfied as thy soul desireth; and thy bones shall be made 

fat and be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water 

42 never failed. And thine old waste places shall be rebuilded; 

and thy foundations shall last for generations of generations: 

and thou shalt be called the repairer of breaches, and shalt en- 
joy rest in the midst of thy paths. 


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Ch. LIX. ESAIAS. 


13 If on account of the sabbaths thou restrain thy foot from 
doing thy pleasure on that holy day; and call the sabbaths de- 
lightful, dedicated to God; and wilt not lift up thy foot for any 

44 work; nor utter a word in anger from thy mouth; and trust 
continually in the Lord; he will then mount thee on the good 
places of the land and feed thee on the inheritance of thy fa- 
ther Jacob: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these 
words. 

LEX. It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor 

2 that his ear is grown dull to hear; but your sins make a sepa- 
ration between you and your God; and on account of your 
sins he hath turned away his face from you that he may not ex- 

-3 ercise compassion. For your hands are polluted with blood, 
and your fingers with sins; your lips have spoken iniquity, 

4 and your tongue contriveth injustice. None speaketh just 
things, nor is there any just judgment. They trusted in vani- 
- ties and they speak lies. Because they hatch mischief, therefore 
5 they bring forth iniquity. They hatched the eggs of asps, and 
are weaving a spider’s web; and he who was about to eat some 
of their eggs, upon breaking one that was hatched found there- 
6 in a viper. Their web will not serve fora mantle, nor can 
they clothe themselves with their works; for their works are 
7 works of iniquity. Their feet are running to evil; they are 
swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasoning for 
8 murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the 
path of peace they do not know, nor is there any judgment in 
their ways; for the paths which they travel are crooked and 
9 peace they do not know. Therefore judgment is far from them, 
and saving mercy shall not overtake them. When they were 
waiting for light, darkness came upon them, expecting a 

10 blaze of light they walked in obscurity. They shall grope like 
blind men for a wall and feel about like men who have no eyes, 

11 and fall at mid-day as at midnight. When dying they will 
groan like a bear and mourn like a dove; and at their departing 
say, ‘““We waited for judgment and there is none: and as for 

12 safety, it is far from us. For our manifold iniquity is before 

___ thee; and our sins are risen up against us: for our iniquities 

13 are in us, and we know our transgressions. We have sinned; 


we have lied, and turned back from following our God; we 
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Ch, LX. ESAIAS. 


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have conceived and meditated from our heart lying words, 
we have indeed turned judgment backward, therefore saving 
mercy standeth aloof.’’ . 

(p) Because truth was destroyed in their ways and they 
could not walk in straight paths; and truth was removed and 
they substituted opinion in place of knowledge, therefore the 
Lord took a view, and it displeased him that there was no judg- 
ment. When he took a view and there was no man; and made 
close observation, and there was no helper; then with his own 
arm he defended them and with mercy supported them. And 
he put on righteousness as a breast plate, and placed on his 
head the helmet of salvation, and threw around him the mantle 
of vengeance; and his cloak, as about to retribute retribution— 
reproach to his adversaries: and they from the west shall re- 
vere the name of the Lord; and they from the risings of the 
sun, his glorious name. For he will come like an impetuous 
stream—for the wrath of the Lord will come with fury. For 
the sake of Sion the Deliverer will come, and turn away un- 
godliness from Jacob. And this shall be my covenant with — 
them, said the Lord, this spirit of mine which.is upon thee, and 
these words which J have put in thy mouth shall not fail from 
thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, (for the Lord hath 
spoken) from this time forth forever. 


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Jerusalem! for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is 


risen upon thee. Behold darkness will cover the earth and 
thick darkness the nations: but upon thee the Lord will shine 
and his glory over thee will be conspicuous. And kings will 
walk by thy light: and nations by thy splendour. 

Raise thing eyes around and behold thy children gathered 
together; all thy sons are come from afar, and thy daughters 
shall be carried on shoulders. Then thou wilt look and be fill- 
ed with awe and astonished at heart; because the riches of the 
sea and of nations and peoples will pour in upon thee. And for 
thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and 
Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing 
gold and will also bring frankincense, and. with joy proclaim 
the salvation of the Lord. And all the flocks of Kedar shall be 


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gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and 
acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house 
of prayer will be glorified. 

(c) Who are those? They are flying like clouds, and like 
doves with their young towards me! 

(J) For me the islands waited, and among the first the 
ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver 
and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of 
the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious; 
therefore strangers shall rebuild thy walls and their kings shall 
wait upon thee. For on account of my wrath I smote thee, but 
for mercy’s sake I have loved thee; and thy gates shall be open 
continually (by day or by night they shall not be shut) to in- 
troduce to thee the wealth of nations and their kings pompous- 
ly attended. For the nations and kings which will not serve 
thee shall perish—such nations indeed shall be utterly laid 
waste. 

The glory of Lebanon also shall come to thee, with the 
cypress and the pine and the cedar, to adorn the place which 
is dedicated to me. And to thee shall come trembling the sons 
of them who afflicted and humbled thee, and thou shalt be 
called, City Sion of the Holy one of Israel. 

Because of thy having been forsaken and hated when there 
was no helper, I will make thee an everlasting boast—a joy for 
perpetual generations. And thou shalt suck the milk of na- 
tions, and feed on the wealth of kings, and shalt know that I 
the Lord am thy Saviour, and that thy Redeemer is the God 
of Israel. And instead of brass 1 will bring thee gold; and in- 
stead of iron I will bring thee silver; and instead of wood I will 
bring thee brass and instead of stones iron. And I will make 
thy chiefs peaceful and thine overseers righteous; and violence 
shall no more be heard in thy land, nor destruction nor misery 
in thy borders; but thy walls shall be called Salvation and thy 
gates, sculpture. And thou shalt no more have the sun for a 
light by day nor shall the rising of the moon enlighten thy 
night; but the Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; and thy 
God will be thy glory. For thy sun shall not go downnor shall thy 
moonever wane: Forthe Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; 
and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. And thy peo- 


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ple shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever, 
preserving the plant, the works of their hands, for glory. The 
fewest in number shall become thousands, and he who is 
smallest, a great nation. I the Lord in due time will gather 
them. 


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for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to 
publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are broken 
hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery 
of sight to the blind: to proclaim an acceptable year of the 
Lord and a day of retribution. ‘To comfort all who are mourn- 
ing; that to the mourners in Sion may be given, glory instead 
of ashes, oil of joy to the mourners, robes of praise for the 


“spirit of heaviness; that they may be called generations of 


righteousness, a plant of the Lord for glory. And the wastes 
of old times shall be rebuilded; and former desolations shall . 
be repaired, and wasted cities renewed which had lain in ru- 
ins for ages. And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks and 
foreigners shall be thy ploughmen and vine dressers. But you 
shall be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God. You 
shall eat the wealth of nations and for their riches be admired. 
Thus shall they again inherit the land; and everlasting joy shall 
be on their head. For I am the Lord who love righteousness 
and hate the spoils of injustice; and I will give the righteous 
the fruit of their toil and make an everlasting covenant with 
them and their seed shall be distinguished among the nations, 
and their offspring in the midst of peoples. Every one who 
seeth them will know them, that they are a seed whom God 
hath blessed. And they shall rejoice in the Lord with joy. 

(c) Rejoice in the Lord, O my soul, for he hath clothed 
me with the mantle of Salvation, and with an under garment 
of gladness, he hath crowned me as a bridegroom viii a crown 
and adorned me as a bride, with jewels, and like the earth 
blooming with flowers. And as a garden causeth its seeds to 
vegetate, so will the Lord cause righteousness to spring up 
and joy in the presence of all the nations. 


LXII. (M) For Sion’s sake I will not be silent, and for the 


sake of Jerusalem I will not rest; until the righteousness thereof _ 


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break forth as light, and my salvation blaze like a torch; and na- | 
tions see thy righteousness, and kings this glory of thine. 
When he shall call thee by a new name which the Lord him- 
self will give thee; then thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the 
hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 
And thou shalt no more be called, Morsaken; nor shall thy 
land any more be called, The desert; but thy name shall be 
called, My Delight; and that of thy country, The inhabited 
land. Because the Lord is well pleased with thee therefore thy 
land shall be thickly inhabited: and as a youth cohabiting 
with a virgin bride, so shall thy sons inhabit it: and as ἃ 
bridegroom will rejoice in his bride, so will the Lord rejoice 
over thee. 

Now upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen 
all the day; and all the night, they will not cease continually 
to mention the Lord; for there is none like you. When he 
shall have re-established and made Jerusalem a boast on the 
earth—the Lord hath sworn by his glory and by the power of 
his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy food to thine ene- 
mies; nor shall the sons of strangers any more drink thy wine, 
for which thou hast laboured. But they who reap the harvest 
shall eat and praise the Lord; and they who gather the vintage 
shall drink wine in my holy courts. Go through my gates and 
prepare the way for my people and throw the stones out of the 
way. Erect a standard for the nations. Forlo! the Lord hath 
published this to the end of the earth. Say to the daughter of 
Sion, Behold the Saviour is come for thee, having his own re-. 
ward and his work before him. And he will call this a holy 
people, redeemed by the Lord; and thou shalt be called the 
city sought and not forsaken. 


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redness of mantles from Bosor! He so mgenlhicey: in apparel? 
He marcheth with majesty! 
(M) I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of sal- 

vation. 

(c) Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from 
a trodden wine-vat? 

(M) Iam full of a country trodden down; and of the na- 
tions there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down 


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in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their 
blood on the earth. For the day of retribution came upon them ° 
and the year of redemption is at hand. When I looked and 
there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine 
own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was rous- 
ed, and I trampled them down in mine nee and shed their 
blood on the earth. 

(c) I recollected the loving kindness of the Lord—the 
mercies of the Lord in all those things which he retributeth 
for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He 
dealeth with us according to his tender mercy and according 
to the abundance of his saving goodness, and said, “" Is not 
this my people? Children should not rebel.”’. And he became 
their Saviour from all their distress. 

It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself 
saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he 
himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them 
all the days of old. But they rebelled and provoked his holy 
spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against θεω 
though he remembered the days of old. 

O! where is he who caused the shepherd of his flock to 
come up out of the sea? Where is he, who put his holy spi- 
rit in them? That glorious arm of his which led Moses by 
the right hand? He forced back the water from before him, 
to make himself an everlasting name. He led them through 
the deep, like a horse through a desert; and they were not — 
fatigued : and like cattle through a plain. A spirit from the 
Lord descended and conducted them. Thus thou didst lead 
this people of thine, to make thyself a glorious name. Return 
from heaven and take a view from the house of thy sanctuary 
and thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy majesty ? Where ἡ 
the abundance of thy loving kindness and tender affections, 
that thou hast withdrawn thyself from us? For thou art our 
father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not 
acknowledged us; do thou, O Lord, our father, do thou de- 
jiver us. From the beginning thy name is upon us; why, O 
Lord hast thou suffered us to wander from thy way, and our 
hearts to be hardened so as not to fear thee? Return for the 
sake of thy servants—for the sake of the tribes of thy heritage, 


Ch. LXIV. LXV. ESAIAS. 


18 that we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain, We are be- 

19 come as at the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, 
and when we were not called by thy name. 

LXIV. If thou wilt open the heaven, at thy presence terror 

2 will. seize the mountains, and they will melt as wax melteth 
before fire; and a fire will burn up the adversaries, and thy 
name will be manifest to the adversaries—At thy presence 

3 the nations will be troubled. When thou executest thy glo- 
rious works, because of thee terror will seize the mountains. 

4 Never have we heard, nor have our eyes seen a God be- 
sides thee; nor works such as thine, which thou wilt do for 

5 them who wait for mercy. For it will meet them who prac- 
tise righteousness, and they will remember their ways. Behold 

6 thou wast angry when we sinned; because of this we wan- 
dered and became all of us as unclean, and all our righteous- 
ness was like a polluted rag; and for our iniquities we have 

7 fallen like leaves ; so that the wind will sweep us away. There 
is indeed none who invoketh thy name, or who remembered 
to lay hold on thee; because thou hast turned away thy face 
from us, and delivered us up for our sins. 

8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father. Though we are clay, 

- 9 we are all the works of thy hands: be not angry with us to the ut- 
termost ; nor remember forever our sins: but, O, look down. 

i0 now upon us; for we are all thy people. The city of thy sanc- 
tuary is become a desert : Sion is become like a desert; Je- 

11 rusalem, for a curse. The house, our sanctuary—even_ that 
glory which our fathers blessed, is utterly burnt up with fire, 

12 and all our glorious things are in ruins; yet for all these things, 
thou, O Lord, hast refrained, and been silent. Thou hast 
humbled us exceedingly. 

LXV. (M) I became manifest to them who inquired not for 
me; I was found by them who sought me not. I said, “ Be- 
hold here Lam’? to the nation which did not invoke my name. 

2 Istretched out my hands all the day long to a disobedient. and 
gainsaying people, who were walking not in a good way, but 

3 following their own sins. This people are provoking me con; 
tinually to my face. They will sacrifice in the gardens and 
burn incense on the tiles, to demons which have not an ex- 

4 istence. They sleep in tombs and in caverns for the purpose 


Ch. LXV. ESAIAS. 


Or 


of dreaming: they eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of sacri- 
fices ; all their vessels are polluted ; yet they say, “ Keep ata 


_ distance from me ; come not near me, for I am clean.” This is 


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asmoke which causeth my wrath; a fire is kindled by it every 
day. Behold it is written before me: I will not keep silence, 
until I have retributed into their bosom their sins; and the 
sins of their fathers, saith the Lord. They have burned incense 
on the mounts, and treated me with scorn on the hills, I will 
retribute their works into their bosom. 

Thus saith the Lord, As when a good grape is found in 
the cluster, they will say, ‘“‘ Destroy it not; for there is a bless- 
ing in it,” so will I do for the sake of him who serveth me ; 
for his sake I will not destroy them all. I will indeed bring 
forth the seed from Jacob namely, from Juda, and he shall 
inherit my holy mountain: and my chosen ones and my ser- 
vants shall inherit and dwell there ; and there shall be in the 
forest folds for flocks ; and the valley of Achor shall be a rest- 
ing place of herds, for my people who have sought me. But 
as for you, who forsake me and forget my holy mountain, 
and who prepare a table for the Demon, and fill up a mixed 
potion for Fortune, you I will deliver up to the sword; you shall 
all bow down to slaughter. Because I called and you answered 
not: I spake and you would not listen ; but did what is evil 
in my sight; and chose the things in which I did not delight; 
therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold my servants shall eat ; 
but you shall be hungry : behold my servants shall drink; but 
you shall be thirsty: behold my servants shall rejoice; but you 
shall be ashamed: behold my servants shall triumph with joy: 
But you shall scream for sorrow of heart, and howl for anguish 
of spirit. For you, shall leave your name for a loathing to my 
chosen. As for you, the Lord will destroy you; but to my 
servants, anew name shall be given which shall be blessed 
on the earth: for they will bless the true God: and they who 
swear on the earth, will swear by the true God. For they will 
forget their former affliction and it shall not recur to their 
mind: for there shall be a new heaven and the earth shall be 
new: and they shall no more remember former things, nor 
shall they ever come again into their mind. But in this they 
shall find: joy and gladness : for behold I am about to make 


€h. LXVI. ESAIAS. 


Jerusalem a subject of joy, and this people of mine a subject of 
19 rejoicing. And I will exult in Jerusalem and rejoice in my 
people ; and there shall no more be heard therein, the voice of 
20 wailing nor the sound of a mournful cry. Nor shall there any 
more be there an untimely birth, nor an old man, who shall 
not complete his term. For he who is a hundred years old 
shall be young; and the sinner, who dieth at a hundred years, 
shall be deemed accursed. And they shall build houses and 
dwell therein: and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruits 
22 thereof. They shall not build, and others inhabit: nor shall 
they plant and others eat: for according to the days of the 
tree of that life, shall be the days of this my people: for they 
23 shall out wear the works of their toils. My chosen ones shall 
not labour in vain, nor shall they bring forth children for a 
curse. Because they are a seed blessed of God, both they and 
24 their offspring: therefore it shall come to pass, that before 
they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking 
25 I will say, What is the matter. Then shall the wolves and 
the lambs feed together: and the lion shall eat straw like the 
LXVI. ox. But the serpent shall eat Cust as bread. They shall 
not hurt, nor shall they destroy on my holy mountain, saith 
the Lord. 
} Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the 
earth, my footstool: what sort of an house will you build for 
2 me? And of what sort shall be the place of my rest? For all 
these things’ my hand hath made: and all these things are 
mine saith the Lord. Upon whom therefore will I look down, 
*but upon him only who is humble and quiet, and who trem- 
3 bleth at my words? As for the wicked man, who sacrificeth 
to me ayoung bull: he is one who slayeth adog: and though 
he offereth me fine flour: it will be as the blood of swine.— 
Though he offereth incense for a memorial, he is as a blasphe- 
mer. As they have chosen their own ways: and their soul 
4 hath delighted in their abominations: I also will chuse their 
delusions, and pay them back their sins. Because I called 
them and they did not answer—I spake, but they did not listen: 
but did that which is evil in my sight, and chose the things 
5 in which I did not delight ; hear the decisions of the Lord— 
ye who tremble at his word, say; “Ὁ our brethren—(to them 
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Ch. LXVL ESAIAS. 


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who hate you and are abominable, that the name of the Lord 
may be glorified and appear to their joy, when they shall be 
6 ashamed) a sound of screaming from the city! a sound from 
the temple! the voice of the Lord rendering a recompense to 
his adversaries ! 
7 That a woman hath brought forth before she travailed ; 
that before her pangs came on, they are over and a male child 
8 born; who hath heard such a thing, or who hath seen the 
like ? Did ever the earth bring forth in a day, or was ever a 
nation born at once ? ‘That Sion should travail and bring forth 
9 her children, I myself gave this expectation; yet thou didst 
not remember me, saith the Lord. Behold did I not make her 
who beareth ; and her who is barren ? Said thy God. | 
O Rejoice O Jerusalem! and sing praises therein, all ye who love 
her! Be exceedingly joyful with her, all ye who mourn for her! 
1 That you may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her 
consolation—that you may suck and be fed deliciously, at 
2 the commencement of her glory. For thus saith the Lord, Be- 
hold I will glide to them like a peaceful stream, and Κα a 
torrent deluging the glory of nations. Their children shall be 
3 carried on shoulders, and shall be dandled on knees. As one 
whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and in 


14 Jerusalem you shall find consolation, And you shall see it, and 


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- your heart shall rejoice; and your bones shall flourish like a 
green herb. And the hand of the Lord will be made known to 
them who fear him. And it will terrify them who are disobe- 
dient. For behold! the Lord will come asa fire, and his cha- 
riots as a whirlwind, to execute his vengeance with wrath 
and his rebuke with flaming fire. For with the fire of the Lord | 
all this land shall be tried, and all flesh with his sword. Many 

7 shall be the slain of the Lord! They who consecrate and puri- 

fy themselves for the gardens, and they who, in the outer 
courts, eat swine’s flesh, and the abominations and the mouse, 
shall for this be consumed together, said the Lord. 

8 As I know their works and their reasoning I am coming 

to gather together all the nations and the tongues, and 

9 they shall come and see my glory. And I will leave among 

them a sign, and those of them who escape I will send to the 
nations—to Tharsis and Phud and Lud and Mosach and to. 


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Ch. LXVI. ESATAS,. }: 


Thobel and Greece and to the far distant isles. They who 
have not heard my name nor seen my glory—even they shall 


20 proclaim my glory among the nations; and they shall bring 


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your brethren from all the nations, as a gift for the Lord with 
horses and chariots, in litters borne by mules with umbrellas 
over them, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord; as the 
children of Israel brought up their sacrifices for me with songs 
of praise to the house of the Lord. And of them I will take 
priests and Levites, said the Lord. For as the new heaven and 
the new earth, which I make, shall remain in my presence, 
saith the Lord; so shall your seed and your name be establish- 
ed. And it shall be, that month after month and sabbath after 
sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, in Jerusa- . 
lem, said the Lord. And they shall go forth, and see the car- 
casses of those men, who have transgressed against me. For 
their worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched, 
and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh. 


JEREMIAS. 


I. The word of God which came to Jeremias the son of Chel- 
kias, one of the priests who dwelt at Anathoth in the land 
af Benjamin; as the word of God came to him in the 
days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth 
year of his reign and came to him in the days of Joakim 
son of Josias king of Juda even to the eleventh year of 
Zedekias son of Josias king of Juda, even to the cap. 
ture of Jerusalem, in the fifth month. 


4 When this word of the Lord came to him, “Before I for- 


5 


med. thee in the womb, I knew thee, and before thou wast born 
I hallowed thee. I have appointed thee a prophet for nations.” 


6 Thereupon I said, O self-existent sovereign, Lord! behold I 
7 know not how to speak, for I am a child. And the Lord said 


8 


-tome, say not “For Lam a child.” For thou shalt go to all, 
to whomsoever I send thee; and according to all that I com- 
mand thee thou shalt speak. Be not afraid of them; for I am 
with thee to deliver thee saith the Lord. 


Cy. 1: JEREMIAS. 


9 Then the Lord stretched forth his hand towards me and ἡ 
touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, Behold I have 

10 put my words in thy mouth. Behold I have this day set thee 
over nations and over kingdoms to root out and demolish and 
destroy; and to rebuild and plant. 

11 Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘‘What yan 
thou 5ε6.᾽ Whereupon I said, “I see a rod of an almond-tree.’ 

12 And the Lord said to me, Thou hast seen well: for I have 
watched over my words to perform them. 

13 Again a word of the Lord came to mea second time say- 
ing: “‘What dost thou see?”’ And I said, “A kettle; its bottom 

14 glowing hot; and its mouth from the north. Then the Lord 
said to me, ‘‘From the north shall blaze out the evils against 

15 all the inhabitants of this land.”’ For behold I am calling toge- 
ther all the kingdoms of the earth from the north, saith the 
Lord; and they shall come and set, every one his throne against 
the vestibules of the gates of Jerusalem and against all the 

16 walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Juda: 
and I will speak to them with a judicial process touching all 
their wickedness. 

17 ~Asthey have forsaken me and sacrificed to strange Gods, 
and worshipped the works of their hands, therefore gird thou 
up thy loins and stand up and speak all that 1 command thee. 
Be not afraid of them, nor terrified at their presence; for I am 

18 with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Behold I have made 
thee this day, like a fortified city and like a wall of brass, too 
strong for all the kings of Juda and the chiefs thereof and the 

19 people of the land. Though they fight against thee they cannot 
prevail over thee; for I am with thee to deliver thee saith the 
Lord. 

II... Then he said, Thus saith the Lord, I remembered mercy 
2 in thy youth; and love, inthy mature age, that thou mightest 
3 follow the Holy Israel, saith the Lord. The Holy Israel is to 

the Lord the chief of his productions, all that devour him shall 
be guilty of trespass: evils susie come upon them, saith the 
Lord. 
4 Hear a word of the sh, O bani of Jacob and every fa- 
5 mily of the house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord, 


ον IE JEREMIAS. 


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What fault did your fathers find in me, that they have 
withdrawn from me; and have gone after vanities and become 
vain: and did not say, Where is the Lord, who brought us up 
out of the land of Egypt; who led us through the wildcrheds 
through a boundless and untrodden land—through a land with- 
out water and without fruit—through a land which no man 
traversed, and where no man had a fixed abode. 

When I brought you to Charmel that you might eat its 
fruits and the good things thereof; you entered in and polluted 
my land; and made my heritage an abomination. The priests 
did not say, “‘Where is the Lord?” and they who studied the 
law did not know me; the pastors also transgressed against 


‘me; and the prophets prophesied for Baal and went after an un- 


profitable thing. For this also I will emplead you; and your 
childrens’ children I will emplead. For go to the isles of Chet- 
tim and see; and send to Kedar and make strict inquiry; and 
see if such things have ever happened: have nations changed 
their Gods, though they are no Gods? but my people have 
changed their glory for that which will not profit them. At 
this the heaven was astonished and shocked exceedingly, saith ° 
the Lord. Because my people did two things which are both 
evil: they forsook me, the fountain of living water; and hewed 
out for themselves broken cisterns which cannot hold water. 

Is Israel a slave or a home born servant ὁ Why was he 
for a prey ? Against him lions roared and uttered their voice: 
they have made his land a desert and his cities are demolished 
so as tobe uninhabitable. Even the sons of Memphisand Taph- 
nas have known and derided thee. Hath not thy forsaking me, 
saith the Lord thy God, brought these things upon thee ? 
Now therefore what hast thou to do with the way to Egypt ? 
Is it to drink the water of Geon ὃ Or what hast thou to do in 
the way to the Assyrians? Is it to drink the water of rivers ὃ 
Let this apostacy of thine correct thee. And thy wickedness 
work conviction in thee. And know and see how bitter a 
thing it is to forsake me, saith the Lord thy God. 

Further, I have no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy 
God, because of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst 
thy bands, and said, I will not serve thee; but I will go up 


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eyery high mount: and under every shady tree, I will there 
indulge my wantonness. Mn 

I indeed planted thee an entirely good and fruitful vine : 
how art thou, O degenerate vine, turned to bitterness? Though 
thou wash thyself with nitre and use much soap: thou art 
stained by thine iniquities in my sight, saith the Lord. How 
canst thou say, I am not polluted, nor have I gone after Baal? — 
View thy ways in the grave-yard, and recollect what thou hast 
done. In the evening her voice raised the mournful cry. She 
enlarged her ways to the waters of a desert: by the desires of 
her soul she was transported into raptures. She is delivered 
up : who will bring her back ? None who seck her will weary 
themselves. In her humiliation they shall find her. 

Turn thy foot from a rugged way, and thy throat from 
thirst. But she said, I will act like one come to maturity. Be- 
cause she loved strangers, therefore after them she did go.— 
As a thief when taken, is ashamed; so shall the children of 
Israel be put to shame. 

They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and 
their prophets, said to a stock, Thou art my father; and toa 
stone, ‘Thou hast begotten me. And turned their backs to me 
and not their faces : yet in the time of their troubles they will 
say, Arise and save us. Where now are thy gods which thou 
hast made for thyself? Will they arise and save in the time 
of thy trouble ? 

Since according to the number of thy cities were thy gods 
O Juda—and. according to the number of the streets of Jeru- 
salem they burned incense to Baal ; why do you address me? 
You are all guilty of impiety: and you have all transgressed 
against me, saith the Lord. In vain have I smitten your chil- 
dren, you did not receive instruction: a sword devoured your 


~ prophets, like a ravening lion; and you were not terrified.— 


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Hear a word of the Lord! Thus saith the Lord, Was Ia de- 
sert to Israel or a desolate land? Why did my people say, 
“‘ We will not be lorded over, nor come to thee any more.” 
Will a bride forget her attire; or a virgin, the ornaments that 
deck her bosom? Yet my people have forgotten me, days 
without number. Wilt thou yet study any decency in thy 
ways m search of love? Far from that, thou hast abandoned 


Ch. Hf. JEREMIAS. 


34 thyself to wickedness to pollute thy ways. And on thy hands 
-hath been found the blood of innocent souls. These I did not 
35 find in breaches into houses, but in every grove of oaks. Yet 
thou sayest, “‘I am innocent; let his wrath be turned from 
me :” behold I will emplead thee for saying, I have not sin- 
36 ned. Because thou hast made very light of repeating thy jour- 
nies, therefore thou shalt be made ashamed of Egypt, as thou 
37 hast been, of Assyria: for thou shalt come up thence with thy 
hands on thy head, for the Lord hath rejected thy confidence 
ΠῚ. and thou shalt not prosper in it. Ifa man divorce his wife 
and she depart from him and marry another, can she return 
again to him ? Would not sucha wife be altogether polluted ? 
Yet thou hast played the harlot with many shepherds and hast 
returned to me saith the Lord. Raise thine eyes, look forward 
and take a view! where is there a place in which thou hast 
not prostituted thyself? In the highways thou hast sat for 
them like a deserted daw, and polluted the land with thy 
3 whoredoms and with thy wicked acts, and retained many shep- 
herds for a stumbling block to thyself: yet with the face of 
4. ἃ harlot and behaving indecently before them all, hast thou 
not returned home and called me father and the guide of thy 
youth ? Will anger continue forever? Shall it be kept up to 
the last? Behold thou hast spoken and done these evil things : 
yet thou hast prevailed. 


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6 If. AGAIN the Lord said to me in the days of Josias the 
king, Hast thou seen what the house of Israel have done to 
me? They have gone up upon every high mountain and under 

7 every shady tree and have there committed whoredom—aind 
after she had committed all these acts of whoredom I said, 

8 Return to me; but she returned not. And the treacherous Juda 
saw this treachery; and I saw that when for all the whoredoms 
which Israel had committed and in which she had been 
caught, 1 had put her away and given her a bill of divorce in 
her hands, the treacherous Juda was not terrified, but went 

9 and committed the like herself. Indeed the other’s fornication 

10 was as nothing; she committed adultery with stocks and 

stones, and for all this the treacherous Juda turned not to me 
11 with her whole heart but only feignedly. Then the Lord said 
12 to me, Israel hath justified herself more than the treacherous 


Ch. IIT. ' JEREMIAS. 


Juda; go and proclaim these words to the north and thou shalt 
say, Return to me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, and I 
will not set my face against you. For I am merciful, saith the 

13 Lord and will not be angry with you forever. Nevertheless ac- 
knowledge thine iniquity—that thou hast transgressed against 
the Lord thy God, and opened thy ways for strangers under 
every shady tree; and hast not hearkened to my voice, saith 

14 the Lord. Return, O apostate children, saith the Lord: for I 
will exercise dominion over you, and take one of a city and 

15 two of a family and bring you to Sion: and I will give you 
pastors according to mine own heart, and they shall tend and 

16_feed you with knowledge. And when you are multiplied and 
increased in the land, saith the Lord, in those days they shall 
no more say, ‘‘ The ark of the covenant of the Holy Israel.” 
It shall no more come to mind nor be named; nor shall it be 

17 covered nor made any more. In those days and at that time 
Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the 
nations shall be gathered to it. And they shall no more follow 

18 the desires of their own wicked heart. In those days the house 
of Juda shall unite with the house of Israel, and they shall 
come together from the land ofthe north and fromall those coun- 
tries, to the land which I put in possession of their fathers. 

19 (p) (Whereupon I said, so be it, O Lord.) 

(J) Because I am to rank thee among children and give thee 
a choice land—the heritage of God the Supreme Ruler of 
nations; .therefore I said, ‘‘ Call me Father,’ and, ‘* From me 

20 you shall not turn away.”’ But as a wife dealeth treacherously 
with her husband, so the house of Israel dealt treacherously 

21 with me, saith the Lord. A sound from the lips was heard, of 
the wailing and supplication of the children of Israel; because 
they had transgressed in their ways—had forgotten God their 

22 Holy One. Return, return, O children, and I ibs heal your 
bruises. 

23 (c) Behold we will be thy servants for thou art the Lord our 
God. False indeed have been the hills and the strength of the 
mountains, but from the Lord our God is the salvation of Is- 

24 racl. This shame consumed the labours of our fathers from 
our youth—Their flocks and their herds, their sons and their 

25 daughters. We lay down in our shame and our dishonour co- 


ον. JEREMIAS., 


vered us; because we sinned against our God—both we and 
our fathers from our youth to this day; and hearkened not to 
the voice of the Lord our God. 
IV, (J) If Israel will return, saith the Lord; let him return to 
me. And if he will remove his abominations from his mouth, 
2 andon account of me be filled with holy awe; and swear “ As 
the Lord liveth” with truth in judgment and justice: then 
3. shall the nations bless by him, and by him praise God in Jeru- 
salem. For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and inha- 
bitants of Jerusalem, Break up for yourselves fallow grounds 
4 and sow not among thorns : be circumcised for your God and 
circumcise the stubbornness of your hearts,O men of Juda and 
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath break out like a fire 
and burn; and there be none to quench it, because of the wick- 
edness of your devices. 


5 Π. (J) MAKE proclamation in Juda and let it be heard in 
Jerusalem. Say, Sound the trumpet in the land; raise the 
screaming cry! Say, Assemble together and let us go into the 

6 walled cities! Break up and flee to Sion; make all haste; tarry 
not: for I am bringing evils from the north and a great de- 

7 struction. A lion has gone up from his den : a destroyer of na- 
tions hath begun. his march and is come from his place to make 
this land a desolation; and the cities shall be demolished so as 

8 to be uninhabitable. For these things gird on sackcloth; wail 
and utter lamentation. Because the wrath of the Lord is not 

9 turned away from you, therefore it shall come to pass in that 
day, saith the Lord; that the understanding of the king shall 
be destroyed; and the understanding of the chiefs; and the 
priests shall be confounded and the prophets amazed. | 

10 (p) Upon this I said, O Sovereign Lord! hast thou in- 
deed deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘ There 
shall be peace,’? when lo! the sword hath reached their very 
soul? 

11 (J) At that time let it be said to this people and to. Jeru- 
salem, there is a spirit of wandering in the wilderness. The 
way of the daughter of my people is not to purity nor to ho- 

12 liness. A spirit of execution shall come for me and I am now 

13 denouncing my judgments on them. Behold he shall come up 

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like a cloud, and his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are 
swifter than eagles. 

(p) Alas for us! we are undone! O Jerusalem! wash thy, 
heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long 
do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee? 

(J) Because the voice of a messenger will come from Dan 
and distress will be heard from mount Ephraim; Call to mind 
the nations: behold they are come. Proclaim in Jerusalem, 
“ Predatory bands are coming from afar, and have uttered 
their voice against the cities of Juda.” Like men watching a 
field they are all around her. Because thou wast not mindful 
of me saith the Lord, thy ways and thy devices have done 
these things to thee. It is owing to thy wickedness that they 
are bitter—that they have reached thy very heart. 

(p) My bowels! my bowels are pained! and every sensa- 
tion of my heart. My soul throbbeth! my heart is torn. I can- 
not keep silence; for my soul hath heard the trumpet’s sound; 
the din of war and of distress. It calleth for contrition; for the 
whole land is in deep distress. My tent is suddenly whelmed 
in ruin; my curtains are rent to pieces. How long shall I see 
men fleeing ! How long hear the sound of trumpets ! 

(J) Because the rulers of my people did not know me, 


they are foolish children and devoid of understanding. They 


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are wise to do evil; but to do good they have no knowledge. 
_(p) I beheld the earth and lo! a void! ‘Then the heaven; 
and its lights were gone. I beheld the mountains; and they 
were trembling, and all the hills were in perturbation. I look- 
ed; and lo! there was ποῖ ἃ man; and all the birds of the air 
were flown. I beheld; and lo! Karmel was a desert; and all the 
cities were burned with fire. At the presence of the Lord; and 
because of his fierce anger, they are utterly destroyed. 

(J) Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be a desert; 
but I will not make a complete end. For these things let the 
land mourn ; and the heaven above be covered with darkness; 
for I have spoken and I will not change my mind, I have 
made an assault and will not withdraw from it. 

(p) At the sound of the cavalry and bended bow all the 
country had fled. They had skulked into caves; and hidden 


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themselves in forests; and upon rocks they had climbed up. 
Every city was deserted; in them not a man dwelt. 

- And as for thee what wilt thou do? Though thou clothe 
thyself with scarlet and deck thyself with ornaments of gold— 
though thou paint thine eyes with stibium, thy decoration will 
avail nothing; thy lovers have cast thee off. They will seek 
thy life. For I have heard a sound as of one in labour—of 
thy groan, as of one who beareth her first child. 

(J) The voice of the daughter of Sion shall be weak : and 
she shall let her hands hang down. 

(p) Wo is me! for my soul fainteth on account of the slain. 

(J) Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem ; and 
look, and inquire, and search in her broad ways. If you can 
find—if there be a man, who executeth judgment and seeketh 
truth, I will be merciful to them saith the Lord. They say, 
‘*As the Lord liveth.”’ Do they not on this very account swear 
to falsehoods? 

(p) O Lord, thine eyes look for faithfulness. Thou hast 
chastised them : but they have not grieved. ‘Thou hast con- 
sumed them and they would not receive instruction. They 
have made their faces harder than a rock and refused to return. 
Then I said, perhaps they are poor, therefore they could 
not. Because they have not known the way of the Lordand the 


5 judgment of God, I will go to the nobles and speak to them. 


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(J) Because these knew the way of the Lord and the judg- 
ment of God, and lo! with one consent, have broken the yoke. 
and burst the bands; therefore a lion from the forest hath smit- 
ten them and a wolf hath destroyed them even: in their 
houses, and a leopard hath lain in wait against their cities. Let 
all who go out from them be hunted down. Because they have 
multiplied their iniquities—have strengthened themselves in 
their apostacies ; for which of these can’ I be merciful to thee? 
Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by things which 
are no Gods. When I fed them plentifully, they committed 
adultery, and revelled in the houses of harlots. They became 
furious wanton steeds; they neighed every one for his neigh- 
bour’s wife. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, 
and on such a nation as his shall not my soul be avenged? Go 


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up against her battlements and demolish them: but you must 
not make a complete destruction; leave her buttresses, for they: 
are the Lord?s. Ibecause the house of Israel have broken faith 
with me, saith the Kord, and the house of Juda have given the 
lie to their Lord and said, ‘These things are not so. Evils will 
not comé upon us; we shall see freither § sword nor famine. Our 
prophets are but wind and the word of the Lord was not in 
them.” 

Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, because you 
have spoken this word; behold I have made these words οἵ 
mine for thy mouth, a fire; and this people fuel; and it shall 
devour them. Behold Iam about to bring against you, O 
house of Israel, saith the Lord, a nation from afar—a nation 
the sound of whose tongue thou wilt not understand. They 
are all mighty men; and they shall devour your harvest and 
your bread; and they shall devour your sons and your daugh- 
ters; and they shall devour your flocks and your herds; and 
they shall devour your vineyards and fig trees and olive orch- 
ards, and smite with the sword your fortified cities, in which 
you trusted. But it shall come to pass in those days, saith the 
Lord thy God, That I will not make an entire end of you. 
Now when you say, ‘“Why hath the Lord our God done all 
this to us?” then thou shalt say to them, Because you served 
strange Gods πὰ your land, therefore you shall serve strange 
Gods in a land which is not yours. Proclaim these things to 
the house of Jacob and let them be A ήνημρμ to the honke of 
Juda. ΡΘΕ ἢ 

‘(p) Hear these things I beseech a O foolish and sta- 
μα people! 

(J) They have eyes, but they do not see; ears they have, 
but they do not hear. Will you not fear me, saith the Lord, 
nor be struck with awe at the presence of me who have by an 
everlasting decree, made sand a boundary to the ocean, so that 
it shall not pass it. Though it be tossed with a tempest, it 
shall not prevail—though the waves thereof roar, they shall not 
overpass it. But this people have a revolting and disobedient 
heart. They have turned aside and are gone: and did not say 
in their heart, let us now fear the Lord our God, who giveth 


ΟΕ JEREMIAS. 


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us the former and the latter rain, according to the time of com- 
pleting the appointed harvest. 

(p) Though he had reserved these for us, your mniqui- 
ties have turned them out-of their course: and your sins have 
removed good things from you. 

~ (J) Since there have been found among my people wicked 
men, who have set snares to destroy men and have caught 
them—As a trap which hath been set is full of birds, so their 
houses are full of deceit, therefore they became great and rich 
and overleaped judgment: they did not administer justice to 
the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow; 
shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and on such a 
nation as this shall not my soul be avenged? 

Astonishing and horrible things have been done in this 

land. ‘The prophets prophesy falsehoods, and the priests clap- 
ped with their hands, and my people loved to have it so. Now 
what will you do in regard to the consequences? 
Assume courage ye sons of Benjamin who are from the 
midst of Jerusalem, and give a signal with the trumpet at The- 
koe; and on Bethacharma erecta standard. Because evils from 
the north are apparent, and a great destruction is begun, there- 
fore thy loftiness shall be destroyed. With regard to the daugh- 
ter of Sion; to her shepherds shall come with their flocks, and 
pitch their tents around against her and feed. [They will say] 
every one to his band ‘‘Prepare yourselves for battle against 
her, arise and let us go up against her at noon.” “Alas for us 
the day is declined,’ “Because the shadows of the day fail, 
arise and letus go up against her by night, and let us destroy 
her foundations.’”? For thus saith the Lord, Cut down her 
trees: discharge engines against Jerusalem: O lying city! in 
it all is oppression. Asa reservoir sendeth forth water, so her 
wickedness gusheth out. Open wickedness and misery may 
be heard in her continually. With anguish and scourging be 
instructed, O Jerusalem! lest my soul be alienated from thee— 
lest 1 make: thee an untrodden land, which shall not be inha- 
bited. For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean as a vineyard the 
remains of Israel. Return again and again like a grape gather- 
er to-his basket. 


Ch. ‘WI. JEREMIAS. 


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εἰ. 


12 


(0) Towhom shall I speak and give warning that he 
may hearken? behold their ears. are uncircumcised oan they — 
cannot hear.— 

(J) Behold the word of the Lord was to them an object 
of reproach and they would not. Therefore my wrath, which 
I filled up and restrained that I might not destroy them, I now 
pour out on infants in the streets, and on the congregation of 
youths at the same time. Because husband and wife shall be 
comprehended—the elder with him who is full of days; there- 


- fore their houses shall be transferred to others—their fields 


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and their wives together. Because I will stretch forth my 
hand against the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord—be- 
cause from the least of them to the greatest, they have all com- 
mitted unrighteous deeds; from the priest to the false pro- 
phet, they have all practised falsehood, and healed the hurt 
of my people by underrating it and saying Peace, Peace; but 
where is there peace? Were they ashamed because they failed? 
even in that case they were not ashamed; nor were they sensi- 
ble of their infamy; therefore they shall fall in the common 
ruin; and in the time of visitation they shall perish, saith the 
Lord. Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the highways and take a 
view and inquire for the ancient paths of the Lord, and see 
which is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find a pu- 
rification for your souls: but they said, ‘“‘We will not go.” 

I have set watchmen over you; hearken to the sound.of the 
trumpet. But they said, ‘‘We will not listen.”? Therefore the 
nations heard; even they who were tending their flocks. 

Hear O earth, behold upon this people am bringing evils— 
the fruit of their apostacy, because they attended not to my words 
and rejected my law. Why do you bring me incense from Saba, 
and cinnamon from a far distant country? Your whole burnt of- 
ferings are notacceptable; nor were your incense offerings sweet 
tome. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I send weakness 
on this people, and weak shall be fathers and sons withthem; and 
neighbour with neighbour shall perish. Thus saith the Lord, 
Behold a people is coming from the north; and nations shall 
be roused from the extremity of the earth: they will grasp the 
bow and the spear: they are haughty and will show no mercy: 


Ch 


. VIL. JEREMIAS. 


τον their voice is like the roaring sea: on horses and in chariots 


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they will draw up in array like fire, for battle against thee, O 
daughter of Sion. 

(c) We have heard the fame of them. Our hands are en- 
feebled. Anguish hath taken hold of us—pangs, as of a wo- 
man in travail. 

(p) Go not out to the fields and in the highways walk not, 
because the sword of the enemy dwelleth all around. O daugh- 
terof my people gird thee with sackcloth; strew thyself with 
ashes: utter for thyself piteous lamentation like the mourning 
for a beloved. For misery will suddenly come upon thee. 

(J) Ihave made thee an assayer for trying peoples: and 
thou shalt know me when I try their ways. They are all dis- 
obedient and walk perversely. Being brass and iron they are 
all utterly consumed. The bellows could not stand the fire : 
the lead is consumed. In vain doth the silversmith try to ex- 
tract silver. Their wickedness was not to be melted. You 
shall call them rejected silver, for the Lord hath rejected 
them.— 


VII. 2 1Π. HEAR a word of the Lord, all ye of Judea! thus 


3 
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11 


saith the Lord the God of Israel : amend your ways and your 
pursuits : and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ‘Trust 
not in yourselves—im lying words : for you will derive no be- 
nefit from them who say, ‘‘ The temple of the Lord ! it is the 
temple of the Lord "ἢ For if you thoroughly amend your ways 
and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between 
man and man: and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and 
widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after 
strange gods to your hurt: then will I cause you to dwell in 
this place—(in the land which I gave to your fathers) from age 
to age. 

But if you continue to trust in lying words from which you 
can derive no benefit ; and commit murder, and adultery and 
steal and swear toa falsehood, and burn incense to Baal ; and 
when you have gone after strange gods which you did not know; 
you, because of your calamities, have then come and stood be- 
fore me, in the house which is called by my name, and said, 
‘We have been restrained from committing these abominati- 
ons;”’ is not this house of mine, which is called by my name, be- 


Chi Vil, JEREMIAS. 


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come in your eyes aden of robbers ὃ Now behold I have see: 
this, saith the Lord. Go then to my place which was at Selo, 
where I caused my name to dwell at first; and see what I have 
done to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel. Now there- 
fore-because you have done all these things : and I have spoken 
to you and you have not hearkened to me; and I have called 
yéuand you have not answered; I therefore will do to this house 
which is called by my name, and in which you have placed your 
confidence ; and to this place which I gave to you and your 
fathers ; as I did to Selo. And I will drive you from my pre- 


sence, as 1 have driven out your brethren, the whole seed 


of Ephraim. And as for thee, pray not thou for this people ; 
nor supplicate for compassion to be shewn them: neither pray 
nor intercede with me for them; for I will not listen. Dost 
thou not see what they are doing in the cities of Juda and in 
the streets of Jerusalem? Their sons are collecting wood ; 
and their fathers are kindling a fire: and their wives are knead- 
ing dough to make cakes for the host of heaven: and they 
have poured out libations to strange gods, to vex me. Do 
they vex me? Saith the Lord: do they not vex themselves ; 
that their faces may be covered with shame ? Therefore thus 
saith the Lord, Behold my anger and my fury 15 poured.apon 
this place and on these men; and on the cattle and on every 
tree of their field and on all the products of the ground, and it 
shall burn and shall not be quenched. Vhus saith the Lord, 
Collect your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices and 
eat flesh. Because I did not speak to your fathers nor give 
them a charge, on the day when I brought them up out of the 
land of Egypt, concerning whole burnt offerings and sacri- 
fices; but only gave them this charge saying, ‘‘Hearken to 
my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; 
and walk in all my ways which I command you that it may 
be well with you.”’ But they hearkened not to me nor inclined 
their ear; but walked in the devices of their own wicked heart, 
and went backward and not forward from the day their fathers 
came out of the land of Egypt to this day: though I sent to 
you all my servants the prophets—daily and early though 1 
sent them, yet they hearkened not to me nor inclined their 


ears—nay they hardened their necks more than their fathers; 


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therefore thou shalt deliver to them this message. ‘This is 
the nation which hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, nor 
received instruction : faithfulness is gone from their mouth : 
shave thy head and throw away the hair, and take up with thy 
lips a song of lamentation, for the Lord hath rejected and cast 
off the generation which hath done these things.”” Because the 
children of Juda have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord, 
have set up their abominations in the house called by my name, 
to pollute it; and have built up the altar of Tophet which is in 
the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons and their 
daughters with fire; a thing which I never commanded them 
and which never entered my mind; therefore, behold days are 
coming saith the Lord, when they shall no more say, The al- 
tar of Tophet, and the valley of the son of Ennom,” but, 
“¢ The valley of them who were slain.”” For they shall bury in 
Tophet for want of room. And the carcasses of this people shall 
be for food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the 
earth; and there shall be none to scare them away. And 1 will 
cause to cease from the cities of Juda and from the streets of 
Jerusalem, the voice of joy and the voice of gladness; the 
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the 
whole land shall be a desolation.” 


VIII. At that time saith the Lord, they shall carry out the 


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bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his chiefs, and the 
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the 
bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; and 
‘expose them to the sun and moon and to all the stars, and to 
all the host of heaven which they loved and served, and after 
which they went and to which they were attached, and to 
which they bowed down. They shall not be lamented nor bu- 
ried; but shall be for a spectacle, on the face of the earth (be- 
cause they chose death rather than life) even to all the residue 
left of that generation, in every place whither I shall drive 
them. | 

Thus saith the Lord, Doth not he who falleth rise again? 
Or doth not he who turneth aside, return back? Why then 
hath this my people shamefully turned aside, and. persisted in 
their error and refused to return? Hearken now and hear ! 


Will they not speak thus, ““ There is not a man who repent- 
VOL, III, Υ 


Ch. VIII. JEREMIAS. 


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eth of his wickedness, saying, “ΟΝ παΐ have I done?” He who 


‘was running stop’d in his course like a horse tired with whinny- 


ing.”? ‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her season; so doth the. 
dove and the swallow of the field: the ostriches observed the 
time of their coming; but my people do not know the judg- 
ments of the Lord. How can you say, ‘‘ We are wise and the 
law of the Lord is with us.’’ In vain was it made; the scribes 
had a lying pen. Are the wise ashamed? They are indeed dis- 
mayed and taken. Because they rejected the law of the Lord; 
therefore be their wisdom what it may, I will give their wives 
to others and their fields to them who will take possession, 
that they may gather the products thereof, saith the Lord. 
(c) There is not a cluster on the vine nor is there a fig on 


| the fig trees, even the leaves are fallen, Why sit we still? As- 


semble andlet us go into the fortified cities; andlet us be cast off 
there; since God hath cast us off. He hathindeed given us wa- 
ter of gall to drink because we have sinned against him. We 
assembled for peace; but there is no good; for a time of heal- 
ing and behold trouble. From Dan we can hear the sound of 
the snorting of his horses; with the neighing of his cayalry the 
whole earth is shaken. 

(J) And on he will come and devour the land and the ful- 
ness thereof, the cities and them who dwell therein. For be- 
hold Iam sending against you deadly serpents, which cannot 
be charmed, and they will bite you with incurable wounds, 
which shall pain your throbbing heart. 

Hark !.a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people 
from a distant land! “Is not the Lord in Sion? Is he not 
king there?” Because they provoked me to anger with their 
graven images and with strange vanities. 

(ρα ΝᾺ summer is past; the harvest is over and we are 
not saved,” at the destruction of the daughter of my people I 
was whelmed in darkness: in distressI was seized with pangs 
like those of a woman in travail. Is there no balm in Gilead? 
Is there no physician there? Why i is not healing come for the 
daughter of my people. 


(c) The chorus, the inhabitants of the country. MD Jehovah. (p} 


The prophet. 


Ch. 
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O! that my head were water ! and mine eyes a fountain 
of tears! That I might weep day and night for this people of 
mine—for the slain of the daughter of my people! O! that I 
had a remote lodging in the wilderness, that I might leave 
my people and go away from them! 

(J) Because they are all adulterers, an assembly of treach- 
erous men, and have bent their tongue like a bow—lying and 
infidelity prevailed in the land—because they have proceeded 
from evils to evils, and have not known me, saith the Lord; be 
upon your guard every man against his neighbour, and in 
your own brothers place no confidence; for every brother will 
supplant, and every friend walk deceitfully; every one will treat 
his friend with contempt. They cannot speak truth; their 
tongue hath learned to speak lies. They have done injustice, 
and have not stopped to rectify it. There is usury upon usury, 
deceit upon deceit; they refused to know me, saith the Lord: 
therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will melt them and 
try them. What else can I do on account of the wickedness 
of the daughter of my people? Their tongue is a wounding 
dart: the words of their mouth are deceitful. To his neigh- 
bour one speaketh peace; when inwardly he harboureth enmi- 
ty. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord; and on 
such a nation shall not my soul be avenged? Take ye up a 
lamentation for the mountains, and for the paths of the wilder- 
ness, asong of woe; for such is the desolation that there are no 
men, nor is there a sound of existence heard from birds of 
the air, nor from cattle. They were confounded. They are fled. 
I will indeed deliver up Jerusalem to captivity and make it a 
den for jackals; and the cities of Juda an uninhabitable desola- 
tion. 

(p) Whoever is a wise man, let him understand this; and 
let him, who hath a word from the mouth of the Lord, declare 
to you, for what cause the land is destroyed—burned up like a 
desert, so as not to be travelled. 


IV. AGAIN the Lord said to me, 

(J) Because they have forsaken my law which I set before 
them and have not hearkened to my voice : but have gone δῇ. 
ter the pleasures of their own wicked heart, and after the idols 


(π, ᾿ς JEREMIAS. 


15 which their fathers taught them; therefore thus saith the 
Lord the God of Israel, behold I will feed them with worm- 
16 wood, and give them water of gall to drink. And I will scat- 
ter them among the nations, which neither they nor their fa- 
thers have known, and send a sword after them till they are 
17 consumed by it. Thus saith the Lord, Call the mourning 
women and let them come; send for the well instructed and 
18 let them utter a plaintive sound and take upa mournful la- 
mentation for you: and let your eyes collect wealig and. your 
eye lids gush out water. 
19 (p) Bevatiss a sound of wailing is heard ἴῃ Sion; ‘‘ Oh 
how wretched we are! how greatly confounded because we 
20 have left our land, and abandoned our habitations :’’ hear I 
beseech you, O women! a word of God: and let your ears 
receive the words of his mouth: and teach your daughters a 
song of woe ; and every woman, her neighbour the mournful 
21 dirge. For death is gone up through your windows : it is come 
into your land, to destroy infants at home and young men in 
22. the streets: and the carcasses of the men shall be for a spec- 
tacle on the open field throughout your land, like grass after 
a mower and there will be none to gather. 
23 (J) Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast of 
his wisdom: nor the mighty man boast of his strength; nei- 
24 ther let the rich man boast of his riches: but let him who 
| boasteth, boast of this only, that he understandeth and know- 
eth, that Iam the Lord, who exercise mercy and judgment 
and justice on the earth: that in these things is my delight, 
25 saith the Lord. Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when ἢ 
will visit upon all the uncircumcised, their uncircumcisions— 
26 Upon Egypt, and upon Idumea, and upon Edom, and upon 
the Ammonites, and upon the Moabites, and upon all that 
have their foreheads shaven—namely them who dwell i in the 
wilderness. 
Because all the nations are uncircumcised in flesh, and all 
X. δε house of Israel are uncircumcised in their hearts; hear 
the word of the Lord which he hath spoken for you O house 
of Israel. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the ways of the na- 
tions, and at the signs of heaven be not dismayed, because 
3 they are terrified at these appearances, because the ordinances 


Ch. X. JEREMIAS. 


Or 


17 


of the nations are vain. Timber is cut from the forest : a car- 
penter’s work and a molten image are adorned with silver and 
gold. Having fastened them with mallets and nails they will ᾿ 
place them and they are not to be moved. They are silver 
which can be turned in a lathe; they cannot walk. They 
are silver which can be formed into plates. From Tharsis 
will come the gold of Mophaz, and the hand of men skilled 
in casting gold. They are all the workmanship of artists. 
With blue and purple raiment they are to be clothed: They 
must be taken up and carried; for they cannot walk, Fear 
them not for they can do you no harm, and there is no good 
in them. Thus shall you say to them, Let the gods, which 
have not made heaven and earth, perish from the earth and 
from under heaven. It is the Lord who made the earth by his 


power, who established the world by his wisdom: and by his 


understanding spread out the heaven, and the multitude of 
waters in heaven: when he brought up clouds from the ex- 
tremity of the earth; he made the lightning for rain, and 
brought light forth from his treasuries. Every man on account 
of knowledge became foolish. Every melter of gold was put 
to shame for his graven images, because he cast falsities and 
there is no breath in them. These ridiculous works are vain; 
in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Unlike to these 
is the portion of Jacob: for he who formed all things is his 
inheritance. His name is, The Lord. He hath collected from 
abroad the substance of thee, dwelling in chosen places. For 
thus saith the Lord, Behold I am about to subvert with afflic- 
tion the inhabitants of this land, that the stroke may reach thee. 
Alas for thine affliction ! the stroke given thee is painful. 

(p) Upon this I said, This is a wounding thee indeed! 
it hath sunk deep in thee! thy tent is in a miserable state. It 
is ruined. And all thy curtains are torn to pieces. 

(c) My children and my flocks are no more. There is not 
a trace of my tent left—no remains of my curtains. 

(J) Because the shepherds were foolish and sought not 
the Lord, therefore the whole flock was thoughtless and they 
are scattered. A noisy sound! Hark! it is coming. And a 
great commotion from the land of the north, to make the cities 
of Juda a desolation and a haunt of ostriches. 


Ci "XT. JEREMIAS. 


23 (p) I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in him- 
self, nor can a man who travelleth ensure to himself a prosper- 

24 ous journey. Correct us, O Lord, but with judgment and not 
with wrath, that thou mayst not make us few in number.— 

25 Pour out thy wrath on the nations that know thee not, and on 
the families which have not invoked thy name. Because they 
have devoured Jacob and consumed him, and have made his 
pasture a desolation. 


XI. V. THE word which came to Jeremias from the Lord, 

2 saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant: and thou shalt 

speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem 

3 and say to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Cur- 

4 sed is the man who will not hearken to the words of that 

covenant which 1 enjomed on your fathers, at the time when 

I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the iron fur- 

nace saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all that 1 command 

you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God; 

5 that I may perform the oath which I sware to your fathers 

to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this 
day. Thereupon I answered and said, So be it, O Lord. 

6 - Then the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities 

of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say, Hear the 

_8 words of this covenant and do them. And when they did not: 

9 the Lord said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of 

10 Juda and among the inhabitants οὔ" Jerusalem. They have 

turned back to the iniquities of their fathers, who refused to 

hearken to my words. And lo they are going after strange 

gods to serve them. Both the house of Israel and the house of © 

Juda have broken my covenant which I made with their fa- 

11 thers; therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am bringing 

upon this people evils, from which they shall not be able to 

escape. And when they cry to me I will not hearken to them. 

12 Let the cities of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and 

cry to the gods, to which they burn incense ; but which can- 

13 not save them in the time of their adversity. Since according 

to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Juda—and ac- 

cording to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, you erected 


Ch. XII. JEREMIAS. 


14 altars to burn incense to Baal; therefore pray not thou for 
this people, nor intercede for them with supplication and pray- 
er; for I will not hearken when they call on me in the time 
of their distress. 

18 What! my beloved hath committed abomination in my 
very house! will prayers and holy meats remove from thee thy 

16 wickedness? or by means of these shalt thou escape? The 
Lord called thy name The beautiful shady olive. At the sound 
of lopping it a fire was kindled agaist it. Great is the afflic- 

17 tion coming upon thee. Its branches are destroyed. The Lord 
who planted thee hath denounced evils against thee, for the 
wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda, for 
they have brought this upon themselves by burning incense 
to Baal to provoke me. 


18 (p) Inform me, O Lord, and let me know! 

19 Then I saw their devices. Asfor me I like a lamb led to 
slaughter did not know. Against me they had formed a wick- 
ed design, saying, ‘Come, let us put poison in his bread, and 
cut him off from the land of the living; and let his name be 
mentioned no more.” 

20 O Lord, who judgest righteously, trying reins and hearts! 
let me see thy vengeance on them, for to thee I have laid open 
my cause. 

21 On this account, thus saith the Lord to the men of Ana- 
thoth, who seek my life, who say thou shalt not prophesy in 
the name of the Lord—if thou dost; thou shalt die by our 

22 hand, ‘‘Behold I will punish them. Their young men shall die 

__-by the sword. And their sons and their daughters shall die by 

23 famine. And there shall not be a remnant of them left; for I 
will bring evils on the inhabitants of Anathoth in the year of 
their visitation.” 

XII. (p) Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a 
cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judg- 
ments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? why are 

2 they happy who have been all guilty οἵ perfidy? Thou hast 
planted them and they have taken root, they have generated 
and produced fruit. ‘Thou art near in their mouth, but far from 


Qo 


8 their reins. But thou, O Lord, knowest me. Thou hast tried 


Ch. XII. JEREMIAS. : 


my heart before thee. Prepare them for the day of their slaugh- 


4 ter. How long shall the land mourn, and all the grass of the - 


5 


field be withered, for the wickedness of them who dwell there- 
in? The cattle and fowls are vanished; because they said, God 
will not regard our ways. 

(J) Thy feet run and fail thee: what preparation canst 
thou make, for horses? In thy land of peace hast thou been se- 


6 cure? how wilt thou act at the swelling of Jordan? since even 


thy brethren and the house of thy father have dealt perfidious- 
ly with thee; when they have raised the cry of war—have as- 
sembled in pursuit of thee, wilt thou trust them, because they 


7 speak thee fair? I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned 


8 


my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the 
hands of her enemies. My heritage became to me like a lion 


9 ina forest; against me it roared; therefore I hated it. Is not 


this heritage of mine the den of a hyena? to me indeed it is the 
den around her. Go, collect all the beasts of the field and let 


10 them come and devour it. Many shepherds have destroyed my 


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vineyard, they have defiled my portion, they have made my 
beloved portion a trackless desert: it is given up to total de- 
struction. On my account the whole land is utterly desolated: 
because there is not a man who layeth this to heart, a- 
gainst every outlet by the wilderness destroyers are come: be- 
cause the sword of the Lord devoureth from one end of the 
land to the other; there is no peace for any flesh. Sow wheat 
and reap brambles. Their portions shall not profit them. Be 
ashamed of your boasting, of reproaches against the Lord. For 
thus saith the Lord, respecting all those malignant neighbours, 
who touch my inheritance which I parcelled out to my peo- 
ple Israel; behold I am about to pluck them out of their land, 
and I will drive out Juda from among them, but after I have 
driven them out, I will return and have compassion on them, 
and settle them every one in his inheritance even every one in 
his own land. And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently 
learn the way of my people to swear by my name, “As the 
Lord liveth” as they taught my people to swear by Baal; they 
shall be established among my people: but if they will not re- 
turn; I will assuredly root out that nation with ruin and de- 
struction. 


Ch. ΧΠΙ. ἹΕΒΕΜΙΑΒ. 


XII. ΨΊ. Thus saith the Lord, Go and get thee a linen gir- 


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12 


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dle and gird it about thy loins; but it must not be washed with 
water. And when I had procured the girdle according to the 
word of the Lord and had girded it about my loins, a word of 
the Lord came to me saying, Take the girdle which is about 
thy loins, and arise and go to the Euphrates and hide it there 
in the hole of the rock. So I went and hid it by the Euphrates 
as the Lord commanded me. And after many days the Lord 
said to me, “Arise and go to the Euphrates and take thence 
the girdle, which I commanded thee to hide there.”? So I went 
to the river Euphrates and digged and took the girdle out of 
the place where I had buried it; and behold it was rotten and 
good for nothing. Then a word of the Lord came to me say- 
ing, Thus saith the Lord, So will I mar the haughtiness of Ju- 
da, and the haughtiness of Jerusalem, that great haughtiness— 
them who refuse to hearken to my words, and have gone af- 
ter strange gods to serve them and worship them: and they 
shall be like this girdle which is good for nothing. For as the 
girdle is tightly bound around the loins of its owner; so did I 
bind to myself the house of Israel, and the whole house 
of Juda; that they might be for me a renowned people, 
and fora boast and fora glory. But they have not hearkened 
to me. Therefore thou shalt say to this people, ‘Every lea- 
thern bottle is to be filled with wine.” And if they say to thee, 
Do we not know very well that every leathern bottle is to be 
filled with wine? Then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the 
Lord, Behold I will fill the inhabitants of this land, both their 
kings who are seated as sons of David on their thrones, and 
the priests and the prophets, even Juda and all the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem, with drunkenness. And I will scatter them, their 
heads of families and their brethren, both fathers and their sons 
at the same time. I will not have compassion saith the Lord, nor 
will I spare, nor pity them for their destruction. 

(p) Hearken and give ear and be not elated; for the Lord 
hath spoken, Give glory to the Lord your God, before the 
darkness cometh, and before your feet stumble on the dark 
mountains; when you will wait for light; and the shadow of 
death will be there; and they shall be placed in darkness. But 
if you will not hearken, your soul shall weep in secret for your 

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haughtiness; and tears shall gush from your eyes; because the 
flock of the Lord is destroyed. 

(J) Say to the king and the rulers, Humble yourselves 
and sit on the ground; for from your head is taken your crown 
of glory. The cities of the south shall be shut up and there shall 


be none to open. Juda is removed; they have made a complete 


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removal. Raise thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and see them who are 
coming from the north! Where is the flock that was given thee 
—the flock of thy glory? What wilt thou say; when these visit 


thee? seeing thou thyself hast taught them against thyself les- 


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sons for government. Will not pangs seize thee as a woman in 
travail? Now shouldst thou say in thy heart, ‘“Why have such 
things befallen me?” For the greatness of thine iniquity, thy 
back is uncovered that thy heels may be exposed to view! 
Will an Ethiopian change his skin and a leopard her spots? 
As for you then, will you who have learned these evils be able 
to do good? Therefore I have scattered them like stubble 
whirled by wind to a desert; this then shall be thy lot and por- 
tion for your disobeying me, saith the Lord. As thou hast for- 
gotten me and trusted in lies; I therefore will expose thee na- 
ked to view that thy shame may be seen—namely thy adulte- 
ry and thy neighing and the lewdness of thy whoredom. On 
the mounts and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. 
Alas for thee, Jerusalem, because thou hast not purified thy- 
self to follow me. How much longer will it be before thou 
wilt ? 


XIV. = VIL THERE came also to Jeremias a word of the 


Lord concerning the drought. Judea mourned and _ her gates 
were deserted: and darkness overspread the land and the cry 
of Jerusalem ascended. When her nobles sent their underlings 
for water ; they went to the wells and found no water and re- 
turned with their vessels empty. A stop was put to the works 
of the field, because there was no rain. The husbandmen 
were confounded ; they covered their heads. The hinds calv- 
ed in the field and left their young, because there was not a 
plant. The wild asses stood in the forests and snuffed up the 
wind: their eyes failed because there was no grass. 
Our sins have risen up against us. Ὁ Lord, deal with us 


Ch. XIV. JEREMIAS. 


14, 


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for thine own sake: for our sins are many in thy sight—for 
we have sinned against thee. Thou, O Lord, art the hope of 
Israel, and savest in time of troubles. Why art thou become 
as a stranger in the land—as a traveller turning aside fora 
lodging? Wilt thou be like a man asleep or like a head of a 
family who cannot save? as thou, O Lord, art among us and 
we are called by thy name, O! do not forget us. Thus saith 
the Lord to this people, 

(J) They have loved to wander and did not refrain, there- 
fore God hath not prospered their ways, he will now remem- 
ber their iniquity. (p)Then the Lord said to me, pray not for the 
prosperity of this people; for though they fast I will not hear 
their prayer; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and 
sacrifices, I will not accept them. For with sword, and with fa- 
mine, and with pestilence, I will utterly consume them. ‘There- 
upon I said, O self-existent Lord! behold their prophets pro- 
phesy and say, ‘‘You shall not see the sword; nor shall there be 
famine among you.For I will give truth and peace in this land 
and in this very place.” 

Then the Lord said to me, ‘These prophets tab false- 
hood in my name; I did not send them, nor command them, 
nor did I speak to them. Because they prophesy to you lying 
visions and divinations, and auguries, and the devices of their 
own hearts; therefore thus saith the Lord concerning those 
prophets, who prophesy falsehoods in my name, and who say 
(though I did not send them) ‘‘There shall be no sword nor fa- 
mine in this land,” they shall die a direful death and by fa- 
mine these prophets shall be consumed. And the people to 
whom they prophesy, with their wives and’their sons and their 
daughters, shall, by reason of the sword and the famine, be 
cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, and there shall be none to 
bury them, when I pour out these evils on them. Therefore 
thou shalt deliver to them this word, ‘‘Collect tears for your 
eyes day and night and let them not fail; for with a bruise the - 
daughter of my people is bruised, and the wound is exceed- 
ingly painful.’ 

(p) ΠῚ goout into the field, behold the slain of the sword! 
and if I go into the city; behold the distress of famine! see- 
ing priest and prophet are gone toa land which they knew not: 


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hast thou utterly rejected Juda and is thy soul alienated from 
Sion? Why hast thou smitten us, and there is no cure for us? 
We waited for peace, and there was no good; for a time of 
healing, and behold trouble! We acknowledge, O Lord, our 
sins and the iniquities of our fathers—that we have sinned 
against thee. O be appeased for thy name’s sake. Destroy not 
the throne of thy glory; remember, O dissolve not thy cove- 
nant with us. Is there any among the idols of the nations who 
can give rain? and if the heaven shed its abundance, art thou 
not he who causeth it. Therefore we will wait on thee, O 
Lord, for thou hast done all these things. 


XV. Then the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel 


stood before me, my soul is not towards them. Send away this 


2 people and let them go. And if they say to thee, ‘‘Whither 


10 


shall we go?” then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the 
Lord, such as are for pestilence, to pestilence, and such as are 
for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for famine, to fa- 
mine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. For I will 
send against them four kinds of avengers, saith the Lord, the 
sword to slay; and the dogs to tear; and the wild beasts of the 
earth, and the birds of the air to devour and destroy. And I 
will deliver them up to distress in all the kingdoms of the 
earth, on account of Manasses son of Iizekias king of Juda— 
for all that he did in Jerusalem. Who wiill pity thee, Jerusa- 
lem? or whowill bemoan thee? or who will turn aside to in- 
quire after thy welfare? ‘Thou hast turned thy back on me, saith 
the Lord: backwards thou shalt go. And I will stretch forth 
my hand and destroy thee. I will ho longer bear with them; but 
utterly disperse them. In the gates.of my people they are be- 
reaved of children; my people are destroyed because of their 
wickedness. Their widows are multiplied above the sand of 
the sea. Against a mother I have brought soldiers—misery 
at noon-day. Upon her I have cast suddenly terror and conster- 
nation. She who was the mother of seven is childless; her soul 
is afflicted, the sun set upon her while it is:yet mid-day; she is 
ashamed and confounded: the rest of them I will deliver up to 
the sword before their enemies. 

(p) Wo is me, O my mother, what sort of a a person achast 
thou bore me !.a man of strife and contending with all this 


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land! I have neither lent on usury: nor hath any one lent to: 
me; yet my strength is spent among them who curse me.— 
Be it so, O Lord, while they enjoy prosperity. 

(J) Did I not stand by thee, in the time of their calamities 
and in the time of their affliction, for good with the enemy ? 
Shall the sword be felt and thy strength be a coat of mail ? 
Thy treasures indeed I will give fora spoil in all thy borders, 
as a ransom for all thy sms; and I will make thee a slave to 
thine enemies around in the land which thou hast not known. 
For a fire is kindled from my wrath and against you it shall 
blaze. 

(p) O Lord, remember me and visit me and save me from 
them, who are persecuting me past forbearance. Consider 
how I have for thy sake borne reproach from them who de- 
spise thy words. Bring them to an end. But let thy word be 
to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. Because I am called 
by thy name, O Lord Almighty, I did not sit in the council 
of those scorners ; but was struck with awe because of thy 
hand. I sat alone because I was full of bitterness. Why do 
they who grieve me prevail over me? My wound is deep, 
how can I be healed ? It is indeed become to me like deceit- 
ful water which cannot be trusted. 

(J) Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou wilt return I 
will reistate thee ; and in my presence thou shalt stand. And 
if thou wilt lead out the precious from the vile, thou shalt be 
as my mouth; and they shall turn to thee and thou shalt not 
turn tothem. And I will make thee to this people like a strong 
wall of brass: though they fight against thee, they shall not pre- 
vail over thee; for lam with thee to save thee and rescue thee 
out of the hand of the wicked. And I will redeem thee out of 


XVI. the hand of pestilent men, But thou must not take a 


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wife, saith the Lord God of Israel : nor shall ἃ son or ἃ daugh- 
ter be born to thee in this place. For thus saith the Lord con- 
cerning the sons, and concerning the daughters born in this 
place, and concerning the mothers who bare them, and concern- 
ing their fathers who begot them in this land; by a direful 
death they shall die ; they shall not be lamented, nor shall they 
be buried; they shall be for a spectacle on the face of the earth; 


they shall be for the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of 


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the air. By the sword they shall fall, and by famine they shall 
be consumed. Thus saith the Lord, Join not in their funeral 
entertainments ; go not to make lamentation nor bewail them. 
Since Ihave taken away my peace from this people, no la- 
mentation shall be made for them; nor shall any cut them- 
selves nor be shaved. There shall neither be bread broken in 
their mourning, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall a cup 
of consolation be given to any one for his father or mother. 
Into a house of feasting thou shalt not enter, to sit with them 
te eat and to drink: for thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, 
behold Iam about to remove out of this place, before your 
eyes and in these your days, the sound of joy and the sound 
of mirth, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the 
bride. 

Now when thou hast proclaimed to this people all these 
words and they say to thee, ““ Why hath the Lord denounced 
against us all these evils ? What is our iniquity ὃ And what 
is our sin which we have committed against the Lord our 
God? Then thoushalt say to them, Because your fathers have 
forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have run after strange gods 
and served them and worshipped them, and have forsaken 
me and have not kept my law; and you have done evil worse 
than your fathers ; and lo! you walk every one after the de- 
sires of your wicked heart, that you may not hearken to me : 
therefore I will hurl you out of this land, into a land which 
neither you nor your fathers knew; and you shall there serve 
strange gods which will shew you no mercy: therefore be- 
hold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when they. shall 
no more say, ‘‘As the Lord liveth who brought up the Israel- 
ites out of the land of Egypt: but, as the Lord liveth, who 
brought up the house of Israel from the north, and from all 
the countries to which they were driven ;᾽ for I will bring 
them again to their land which I gave to their fathers. Behold 
I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish 
them: and after that I will send many hunters and they shail 
hunt them, on every mountain and every hill, and out of the 
holes of the rocks. Because mine eyes are on all their ways, 
and their iniquities are not hid from mine eyes; therefore I 
will doubly requite them for their wickedness and their sins 


Ch. XVII. JEREMIAS. 


—for their having defiled my land with the carcasses of theit 
abominations, and for their acts of iniquity with which they 
have caused my heritage to transgress. 

19 (p) O Lord, thou art my strength and my help, and my 
refuge in days of affliction. To thee nations will come from 
the extremity of the earth and say, What lying idols did our 

20. fathers possess! there is no advantage in them. If a man make 
gods for himself, they are indeed no gods. 

2] (J) For this purpose behold! I will at that time mani- 
fest my hand to them and make known to them my power, 

XVII. 5 and they shall know that my name is The Lord. Cur- 
sed is the man whose hope is on man—who shall fix the flesh 
of his arm on him, and whose heart hath departed from the 

6 Lord. He shall be like the wild myrtle in the desert. He shall 
not see when good cometh; but shall dwell in parched places 

7 and ina desert—in a salt land which is uninhabited. But bless- 
ed is the man who hath trusted in the Lord; and whose hope 
8 is the Lord. He will be like a thriving tree near waters which 
shall shoot out its roots in a moist soil. It will not be afraid 
when heat cometh, though its stock be loaded with branches. 
_In a year of drought it will not be afraid, nor will it fail to 
bear fruit. ° 
9 (p) The heart is deep beyond all things; so also is a man, 
who then can know him? . 

10 (J) Ithe Lord search hearts and try reins, to give to every 
one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his 

11 devices. A partridge whistled and collected young which it 
did not bring forth, increasing its wealth but not with judg- 
ment; in the midst of its days they will leave it, and at its end 
it will be a fool. 

12 (p)Our sanctuary is an exalted throne of glory. Thou, O 

13 Lord art the hope of Israel. Let all who forsake thee be asham- 
ed ; let them who have apostatised be enrolled in the dust, 

14 because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of life. 

‘Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed. Save me, and I 
shall be saved. Because thou art my boast, behold they say to 

18 me, “ Where is. the word of the Lord? Let it come. As for 

16 me, I was not weary of following thee, nor did I desire the 
day of aman: thou knowest. The words which pass my lips 

17 are before thee; be not estranged from me. Spare me in an 


Ch. XVIII. . JEREMIAS. 


18 evil day. Let my persecutors be ashamed; but let me not be 
shamed. Let them be dismayed : but let not me be dismayed. 
Bring upon them an evil day. Crush them with a double 
crush. — 


19 VIII. (J) THUS saith the Lord, Go and stand in the gates 

of the children of thy people at which the kings of Juda come 

20 in and at which they go out, evenat all the gates of Jerusalem, 

and thou shalt say to them, Hear the word of the Lord, O 

kings of Juda and all Juda and all Jerusalem, who enter in by 

21 these gates! Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to yourselves 

22 and carry no burdens on the sabbath day ; nor go out of the 

gates of Jerusalem. Neither carry burdens out of your houses 

on the sabbath day nor do any work. Hallow the sabbath day 

23 as I commanded your fathers. Though they did not hearken, 

though they did not incline their ear, but stiffened their necks 

24 more than their fathers, that they might not hearken to me nor 

receive instruction; yet if you will hearken to me, saith the 

Lord, and not carry burdens through the gates of this city on 

25 the sabbath day,but hallow the sabbath day by doing no work 

thereon; there shall enter in at the gates of this city, kings and 

chiefs seated on the throne of David and riding in chariots and 

on horses, they and their chiefs, the men of Juda and the inha- 

bitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall be inhabited for the 

26 age. And. there shall come from the cities of Juda and from 

around Jerusalem and from the land of Benjamin and from 

the plain and from the mountain and from the country to the 

south, people bringing whole burnt offerings and sacrifices 

and incense and fine flour and frankincense—bringing  offer- 

ings of thanksgivings to the house of the Lord. But if you 

will not hearken to me to hallow the sabbath day, so as not to 

‘carry burdens nor come in at the gates of Jerusalem on the 

sabbath day, I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof and it 

shall consume the streets of Jerusalem and. shall not be 
quenched. | 


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XVIII. IX. THE word which came to Jeremias from the Lord, 
saying, ‘* Arise and go down to the house of the “potter and 
3 there thou shalt hear my words.” So I went down to the housc 


Ch. XVIII. » JEREMIAS. 


of the potter; and behold he was making a piece of work on 


4. stones; and the vessel, which he was fashioning with his hands, 


fell, whereupon he again made it a vessel of another sort as it 


5 seemed good to him to make it. Then a word of the Lord 
6 came to me saying, Cannot I do with you, O house of Israel, 


as this potter? Behold you are in my hands like the clay of 


7 the potter. When I speak to a nation or kingdom, that I will 
8 remove and destroy them; if that nation turn from all their 


evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which 1 was resolv- 


9 ing to bring on them. And when I speak to a nation and king- 


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dom that I will build up and replant : If they do evil in my 
sight so as not to hearken to my voice, I indeed will alter, my 
mind in respect to the seed things which I spoke of doing for 
them. 

Now I have said to the men of Juda and to the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem, Behold I am preparing evils against you and 


forming against you a determination; turn therefore every one 


from his evil way and make better things the objects of your 
pursuit: but they said, We will act like men. We will fol- 
low our own courses; and what every one findeth agreeable to 
his own wicked heart that we will do. Therefore thus saith 
the Lord, Inquire among the nations. Who hath heard of such 
horrible things as the virgin of Israel hath sedulously done? 
Will crags forsake a rock or snow quit Libanus? Or water 
turn aside when furiously driven by wind? Because my peo- 
ple have forgotten me—-have burned incense to vanity; they 
will therefore break down the everlasting barriers in their 
ways that they may walk in paths having no road for travel- 
lmg—that they may make the land a desolation—an everlast- 
ing object of pity. All.that. pass through it shall be astonished 
and shake.their head. Like a burning wind I will scatter them 
before their enemies. I will shew them the day of their de- 
struction. 

Upon this they said, Come let us settle an account with Je- 
remias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor coun- 
seli 4 the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and 
that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his 
words. 

Hear me, O Lord, and hearken to my justification. Shall 

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evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived de- 
signs against my life and concealed the punishment they in- 
tended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede 
for them—to turn away thy wrath from them. For this cause 
deliver up their sons to famine and give them up in multitudes 
to the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows; 
and the husbands be cut off by pestilence and their young men 
fall by the sword in battle. Let a scream be heard in their 
houses. Thou wilt bring robbers suddenly on them because 
they contrived a speech to entrap me and concealed the snares 
they had set for me. Thou indeed, O Lord, knewest all their 
designs against me to put me to death. Absolve them not 
from their wickedness, nor blot out their sins from before thee. 
Let their weakness be before thee. Deal with them in the 
time of thy wrath. 


XIX. Then the Lord said to me, Go and get a pitcher of 


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earthen ware and thou shalt take out some of the elders of the 
people and of the priests and go out to the common grave 
yard which is at the entrance of the gate Charseith and read 
there all these words which I shall speak to thee and thou 
shalt say to them, 

Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda and ye men 
of Juda and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye who enter in 
at these gates. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold 
Tam bringing evils upon this place, so that the ears of every, 
one who heareth them shall titigle. Because they have forsaken 
me and profaned this place; and have burned incense in it to 
strange gods, which-neither they nor their fathers knew; and 
the kings of Juda have filled this place with the blood of 
innocents; and have built high places to Baal to burn their sons 
with fire, things which I never commanded, and which never 
came into my mind; therefore behold the days are coming, 
saith the Lord, When this place shall no more be called, ‘The 
end of hope,”’ and “The grave yard of the sons of Ennom;”’ 
but ‘‘The grave yard of slaughter.” For I will slaughter the 
council of Juda and the council of Jerusalem in this place ; 
And cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and 
by the hands of them who seek their lives. And I will give their— 


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8 of the earth, and make this city adesolation and an object of 
pity. Every one who passeth by it shall be sad and express 
9 the sound of pity for the stroke which it hath received. They ᾿ 
shall indeed eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their 
daughters; and they shall eat, every one, the flesh of his 
neighbour, in the blockade and siege with which their ene- 
mies shall besiege them. 
10 Then thou shalt break the pitcher before the eyes of the 
11 men who went out with thee and say, Thus saith the Lord, So 
will I break this people and this city: as this earthen pitcher 
12 is broken and cannot be mended, so will I do, saith the Lord, 
to this place and to the inhabitants thereof, that this city may 
13 be dashed down like that hopeless vessel. And the houses of 
the kings of Juda shall be like this hopeless place, because of 
their impurities in all the houses on the tops of which they 
burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out liba- 
tions to strange gods. 
14 Now when Jeremias returned from the grave yard whither 
the Lord had sent him to prophesy, he stood up in the court 
15 of the house of the Lord and said to all the people, Thus saith 
the Lord, Behold I am bringing upon this city and upon allthe 
cities belonging to it and upon all the villages thereof all the 
evils which I have denounced against it, because they have - 
hardened their necks so as not to hearken to my command- 
XX. ments. Whereupon Paschor son of Emmer, the priest 
2 whowasappointed ruler ofthe house of the Lord, when he heard 
Jeremias prophesying these words, smote him and committed 
him to the prison which was in the upper story of the gate to 
3 the house of the Lord. And when Paschor took Jeremias out 
of prison, Jeremias said to him, He hath not called thy name 
4 Paschor, but Exile. For thus saith the Lord, Behold I will 
send thee with all thy friends into exile; and they shall fall by 
the sword of their enemies and thine eyes shalt see it. I will 
deliver thee and all Juda into the hands of the king of Baby- 
Jon ; and they shall be exiled and slain with swords. And I 
will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labours 
thereof and.all the treasures of the king of Juda into the 
hands of his enemies and they shall carry them to Babylon. 
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tivity and thou shalt die in Babylon and be buried there, thou — 
and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophesied falsehoods. 
(p) Hast thou,O Lord deceived me? and have I been deceiv- 
ed? Thou hast taken hold and hast prevailed. Iam become a 
subject of laughter: all the day long I endure reproach. Be- - 
cause for my bitter word I am to be derided, shall I appeal to 
a breach of covenant and misery? because the word of the 
Lord became a reproach to me—a subject of mockery all the 
day long; therefore I said, I will not name the name of the 
Lord—I will not speak any more in his name. But there was 
10 kindled as it were a burning fire in my bones and I became 
dejected and cannot bear it. Because I heard the whisper of 
many collected from all around saying, “Join in conspiracy 
and let us all conspire against him; ye men who are his friends 
watch his thoughts; if he can be deceived, we shall then pre- 
11 vail over him and take our revenge on him.” But the Lord 
was with me as a mighty warrior, therefore they persecuted 
and could not contrive. They were put to great confusion. 
Because they had not a due sense of their infamous practi-. 
12 ces, which are never to be forgotten; Q Lord, who provest 
righteous things, who knowest reins and hearts I might have 
seen thy vengeance on them. For to thee I laid open my cause. 
13 Sing to the Lord; sing praises to him, because he hath reseu- 
14 ed the soul of the needy out of the hand of evil doers. ‘‘Let the 
day be cursed in which I was born—the day in which my mo- 
ther bore me; Let it not be mentioned with expressions of 
15 joy. Let the man be cursed who brought tidings to my fa- 
ther saying, 4 male child is borne to thee making him glad. 
16 Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew in 
wrath and relented not, Let him hear a scream in the morn- 
17 ing and the cry of woe at noon-day, because he did not kill me 
in the womb, and my mother was not made my grave, and her 
18 womb always with child.” To what purpose this? I came forth 
from the womb to see labours and sorrows, and my days have 
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the king of Juda and thou shalt speak there this word and say, . 
Hear a word of the Lord, O king of Juda, who art seated on the 


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throne of David, thou and thy household and thy people and 
they who enter in at these gates! Thus saith the Lord, Execute 
judgement and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand 
of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the or- 
phan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor 
shed innocent blood in this place. For if you faithfully exe- 
cute this charge, there shall enter in at the gates of this house, 
kings seated on the throne of David and riding in chariots and 
on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you 
will not perform these things, by myself I have sworn, saith. 
the Lord, This house shall be a desolation. For thus saith the 
Lord against the house of the king of Juda, though thou wert 
to me as Galaad, as the top of Libanus, I will make thee a 
desolation, cities uninhabitable. I will mdeed bring against 
thee a destroyer, aman with his axe; and they shall cut down 
thy choice cedars and throw them into the fire. And when na- 
tions shall pass by this city, they will say, every one to his 
neighbour, ‘‘Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this great 
city?”’ To which it will be said in reply, ‘‘Because they forsook 
the Lord their God and worshipped strange gods and served 
them.” 

Weep not for him who is dead, nor utter lamentations for 
him, weep bitterly for him who is going away; for he shall ne- 
ver return, nor see any more his native country. For thus saith 
the Lord respecting Sellem son of Josias, who reigned in the 
room of his father and who is gone from this place; he shall not 
return hither any more: but in the place to which I have trans- 
ported him, there he shall die and this land he shall seeno more. 
With regard to him who is building himself a house, but not 
with righteousness, and lofty stories, but not with justice: he 
useth the service of his neighbour for nothing, and will not 
pay him his wages. Thou hast built thyself.a well proportion- 
ed house, lofty chambers well fitted with windows, and cieled 
with cedar and painted with vermillion. Is it thy desire to be 
made king? because thou art instigated by thy father Achaz, 
are there not feasts? are there not entertainments? better were 
it for thee to execute judgment and justice. They did not . 
take cognisance, they did not administer justice to the lowly, 
nor decide righteously the cause of the needy, is not this ow- 


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are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon 
thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, 
and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate 
these things. 

Therefore thus saith the Lord facia Joakim son of 
Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man, they shall not 
utter for him the lamentation ‘Alas Brother,” nor shall they 
bewail him saying, “ας Jord.” He shall be buried with the bu- 
rial of an ass—being blotted out he shall be cast forth without 
the gates of Jerusalem. Ascend Libanus and scream: ascend 
Basan, and shout. Shout till thy voice reach the sea coast; for 
all thy lovers are destroyed. I spake to thee respecting thy 
fall; but thou saidst, “1 will not listen.” This hath been thy | 
way from thy. youth, thou hast not hearkened to my voice. All 
thy shepherds shall be fed with wind; and all thy lovers shall 
go into captivity; that thou mayst then be ashamed and con- 
founded on the account of them who love thee. O inhabitant 
of Lebanon, who hast thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan 
bitterly when pangs come upon thee like those of a woman in 
travail: as I live saith the Lord jthough Jechonias may be 
made a son of Joakim, a king of Juda, a signet on my right 
hand. I will drag thee out poe and deliver thee into the 
hands of them who seek thy life—of them whose countenance 
thou dreadest—into the hands of the Chaldeans. And I will 
cast out thee and the mother who brought thee forth, into a 
land where thou wast not born, and there thou shalt die. Into 
the land which their souls long for they shall not return. Jecho- 


nias 1s dishonoured like a vessel which is useless, because he 


is hurled away and cast into a land which he knew not. O 
earth, earth, hear a word of the Lord! record the chieftain him- 
self as a man of low rank, exiled by the voice of a herald; for 
no increase from his seed shall sit on the throne of David, nor 
any more be chief in Juda. 


XXII. XI. HA! the shepherds are destroying and scatter- 


ing the shcep of their pasture. ‘Therefore thus saith the Lord 


2 to the shepherds of my people, You have scattered my flock 


and driven them away and have not watched them; behold I 


3 will punish you according to your malignant doings. . And I 


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will gather the remains of my people in every land whither I 
have driven them and bring them back to their own pasture 
and they shall increase and multiply. And I will raise up shep- 
herds for them who will feed them. And they shall no more be 
terrified nor affrighted, saith the Lord. 

Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will 
raise up for David a righteous shoot, who shall reign king and. 
understand and execute judgment and justice onthe earth. Inhis 
days Juda shall be saved and Israel shall dwell securely. And 
the name which the Lord will give him by the prophets shall 
be Josedek (Lord of righteousness.] 

(p) My heart within me was broken. All my bones qui- 
vered. I was like a man sore bruised and like a man staggering 
with wine, at the presence of the Lord, and at the comeli- 
ness of his glory; because on account of them the land mourn- 
ed and the pastures of the wilderness were parched up—be- 
cause their course was bad and suitably thereto their strength. 

(J) Because priest and prophet are polluted, and in my 
house I have seen their wickedness; let their way therefore be 
slippery and dark, that they may stumble and fall therein. For 
I will bring evils upon them in the year of their visitation. 
Among the prophets of Samaria I saw indeed unlawful do- 
ings—they prophesied in the name of Baal and led my people 
Israel astray: but among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw hor- 
rible things—some committing adultery, and some walking in 
lies, and some strengthening the hands of the multitude, that 
none might turn from his evil way. To me they are all be- 
come like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorra: 
therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will feed them with 
wormwood, and give them the water of gall to drink. Because 
from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has gone forth 
through all the land, thus saith the Lord Almighty, Hearken 
not to the words of these prophets; for they contrive for them- 
selves a foolish vision: they speak from their own hearts and 
not from the mouth of the Lord. They say to .them who re- 
ject the word of the Lord, “You shall have peace.” Even to 
all who are walking by their own desires, and to every one 
walking in the error of his own heart they say, “Eivils shall not 
come upon thee. For which of them hath stood in the council 


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of the Lord and seen? who hath hearkened and heard his 
voice?”’? Behold a tempest from the Lord and wrath like a hur- 
ricane is issuing forth: it will come like a whirlwind upon the 
wicked; and from the purpose of his heart the wrath of the 
Lord will not turn away; until it hath executed it; and until he 
hath established it. In the last of these days they shall perceive 
this. I did not send these prophets, but they ran of themselves; ~ 
I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. Now had they 
stood in the firm belief of me and heard my word, they might 
have turned my people from their wicked pursuits. I am God 
when near, saith the Lord; and am I not God when far off? 
Can any one hide himself in secret places; and I not see him? 
Do I not fill the heaven and the earth? saith the Lord. I have 
heard what these prophets speak—what they prophesy in my 
name, saying falsely, “1 πᾶνε dreamed a dream.” How long 
shall it be in the heart of these prophets, who prophesy lies, 
that by prophesying the desires of their own hearts—they may 
count upon causing my name to be forgotten, by their dreams 


which they tell, every one to his neighbour; as their fathers 


forgot my name by using Baal? Let the prophet, who hath a 
dream, tell his dream: and let him, to whom my word) cometh, 
declare it with truth. Why is the chaff added to the wheat? Is 
not this the case with my words? saith the Lord. Behold are 
not my words like fire? saith the Lord; and like a sledge which 
br eaketh a rock? ‘T herefore behold I am against those pro- 
phets, saith the Lord, who steal my words every one from his 
neighbour. Behold I am against those prophets, who belch 
forth prophesies of the tongue and drowse their dozy drows- 
ings: therefore behold Iam against-those prophets who prophe- 
sy false dreams. Have they not told them and led my people 
astray by their lies and their errors? As for me, I neither sent 
them nor commanded them; therefore they ‘cannot in any wise 
benefit this people. Now if this people or a priest or a prophet 
should ask, “What is the burden of the Lord?” Thou shalt 
say to them, “ἴοι are that burden and I will cast you off, saith 
the Lord.’” As for the prophet and the priests and the people 
who say, “The burden of the Lord;” I will punish that man 
and his house. Thus you shall say every one to his neighbour 
and every one to his brother, ‘What hath the Lord answered,” 


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36 and, ‘‘What hath the Lord spoken.” So mention no more the 

burden of the Lord: since every man’s word shall be his bur- 

37 den. “But why hath the Lord our God spoken?” For this 

38 cause, saith the Lord our God, because you have used this ex- 
pression, ‘“The Burden of the Lord,” though I sent to you say- 

39 ing, You shall not say, “Τῆς Burden of the Lord.” There- 

fore behold I will take and dash down you and this city which 

40 I gave to you and your fathers; and I will bring upon you 

everlasting reproach, and everlasting dishonour which shall 
not be forgotten. : 

XXXVI. XII. Inthe beginning of the reign of Joakim son 
of Josias, this word came from the Lord. . 

2 Thus saith the Lord, Stand in the court of the house of 
the Lord and thou shalt solemnly pronounce to all the Jews 
and to all who come to worship in the house of the Lord all 
the words which I have commanded thee to prophesy to them; 

3 keep not back a word. Perhaps they may hearken and turn 

every one from his evil way, that I may refrain from all the 

evils which I am resolving to do to them, because of their 
wicked pursuits. And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, 

Unless you hearken to me so as to walk by the ordinances 

5 which I have set before you ; and hearken to the words of my 

servants the prophets, whom I send to you, whom I, rising 

early, have sent to you, though you have not hearkened to them; 

I will make this house like Selo; and this city I will make a 

curse for all the nations of the whole earth. 

ἤ So the priests and the false prophets and all the people 

heard Jeremias pronouncing these words in the house of the 

Lord. And when Jeremias had done speaking all that the 

Lord had commanded. him to deliver to all the people; the 

priests and the false prophets and all the people seized him, 

saying, Thou shalt be put to death, because thou hast prophe- 
sied in the name of the Lord saying, ‘‘ This house shall be 
like Selo, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitants.” 

And all the people were assembled against Jeremias in the 

10. house of the Lord. When the chiefs of Juda heard the affair, 

they went up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord 

and. sat down in the vestibule of the new gate. And the priests 
and the false prophets addressed the chiefs, and said to all the 
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people, Let sentence of death pass on this man, because he 
hath prophesied against this city as you have heard with your 
ears. Whereupon Jeremias addressing the chiefs, spoke to 
all the people saying, The Lord hath sent me to prophesy 
against this house and against this city, all the words which 
you have heard. Now therefore amend your ways and your 
doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord 
will refrain from all the evils which he hath denounced against 
you. As for me, behold I am in your hands. Do with me as 
seemeth good and best to you. But be assured that if you 
put me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves and 
upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof. For in truth, 
the Lord hath sent me to you to speak a these words in your 
hearing. 

Τ [μὴ the chiefs and all the people fess to the priests and 
the false prophets, This man is not liable to death, for he hath 
spoken to us in the name of the Lord. And there stood up 
some principal men of the elders of the land, and said to all 
the assembly of the people, Michaias the Morasthite lived in 


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ple of Juda, ‘“‘ Thus said the Lord, Sion shall be ploughed | 
like a field; and Jerusalem shall be a desolation; and the moun- 
tain of this house, a grove of a forest :”? but did Ezekias and 
all Juda put him to death? No. Because they feared the Lord; 
and because they intreated the favour of the Lord: therefore 
the Lord refrained from the evils which he had denounced 
against them. Now as for us, we have committed great evils 
against our souls. 

Now there was a man who prophesied in the name of the 
Lord, namely Ourias son of Samaias of Kariathiarim ; and he 
prophesied against this land according to all the words of 
Jeremias. And when king Joakim and all the chiefs heard 
all his words, and sought to kill him and Ourias heard it, he 
fled to Egypt. And the king sent men to Egypt, who fetched 
him out thence and brought him to the king; and he slew 
him with the sword and threw him into the common. grave 
yard. But the hand of Achikam son of Saphan was with Je- 
remias that they should not deliver him up into the hands of 
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ing all the people of Juda in the fourth year of Joakim son of 
Josias king of Juda, which he spoke to all the people of Juda 
and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 

(J ) From the thirteenth year of Josias son of Amos king 
of Juda even to this day, for three and twenty years I have 
spoken to you rising carly and speaking: and I have sent to 
you my servants the prophets; rising early and sending them, 
though you have not hearkened nor inclined your ears; say- 
ing, Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your 
wicked pursuits and you shall dwell in this land, which I gave 
to you and your fathers from age to age. Go not after strange 
gods toserve them, and worship them, that you may not provoke 
me by the works of your hands to bring evils upon you. Butyou 
hearkened not to me. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Since you 
have not believed my words, behold I am sending, and I will 
takeafamily from the northand bring them against this land and. 
against the inhabitants thereof and against all the nations 
around it. And I will lay them waste and make them a deso- 
lation and an object of pity and an everlasting reproach. And I 
will destroy from among them the sound of joy and the sound 
of gladness ; the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of 


‘the bride ; the odour of myrrh and the light of the lamp. And 


the whole country shall be a desolation. And they shall be 
slaves among the nations seventy years. And when the se- 
venty years are compleated I will execute vengeance on that 
nation, and make them an everlasting desolation. I will indeed 
bring against that land all these words of mine which I have 
spoken against it—all the things which are written in this 
book which Jeremias prophesied against the nations, in the 
manner the Lord, the God of Israel said, ‘‘ Take this cup cf 
wine—this strong wine from my hand, and thou shalt make 
all the nations, to which I send thee, drink it: And they shall 
drink. and vomit and rave, because of the sword which I send 
among them. So I took the cup out of the hand of the Lord 
and made all the nations drink to which the Lord sent me, 
namely Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Ju- 
da, and his chiefs, to make them a desolation and a waste and 
an object of pity; also Pharao king of Egypt and his servants 


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and his nobles and all his people; and all the mixed people; 
and all the kings of the Philistines, (namely Ascalon and Gaza 
and Akkaron and the remnant of Azotus;) and Idumea and 
Moab and the children of Ammon; and the kings of Tyre 
and the kings of Sidon; and the kings on the border of the 
sea; and Daidan and Thaiman and Ros, and all that had their 
foreheads shaven; and all the mixed people who dwell in the 
desert ; and all the kings of Ailam and all the kings of the’ 
Persians and all the kings north of the sun, far and near, every 
one adjoining his brother, even all the kingdoms on the face 
of the earth. And thou shalt say to them, Thus said the 
Lord Almighty, Drink and be drunk, and you shall vomit, 
and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I send 
among you. 
And if they’refuse to take the cup out of thy hand to drink, 

then thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, You shall drink it : 
for in the city which is called by my name I am beginning to 
inflict calamity and with purification you shall not be purified; 
for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the 
earth. Therefore thou shalt prophesy against them all these words 
and say; The Lord from on high will solemnly pronounce sen- 


tence from his sanctuary; he will utter his voice—in his place. — 


he will utter a triumphant shout and some like the treaders of 
grapes will answer. When destruction hath come on the inha- 
bitants of this land—upon a part of the earth; because the 
Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will come to 
judgment with all flesh; and the wicked shall be given up to the 
sword, saith the Lord: Thus saith the Lord, Behold evils are 
coming from nation to nation. A mighty tempest is issumg 
forth from the extremity of the earth, and the slain of the 
Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the 
earth to the other. They shall not be buried. They shall’ be 
for dung on the face of the earth. Raise the mournful cry, ye 
shepherds; utter loud moans and lamentations, ye rams of the 
flock; for the days for your slaughter are accomplished, and 
ye shall fall like choice rams; and the shepherds shall have no 
way to flee, nor the rams of the flock to escape. Hark !'a sound 
of the shepherds’ screaming! anda doleful bleating of the . 
sheep and the rams! For the Lord hath utterly destroyed their 


Ch. XXXVI. JEREMIAS. 


37 pastures and because of his fierce anger he will put an end to 

38 the remains of peace. Like a lion he hath quitted his covert; 
therefore their land is become a trackless desert by reason of 
the mighty sword. 


XXXVI. XIV. IN the fourth year of Joakim son of Josias 
king of Juda, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Take 
thee a roll of a book and write therein all the words which I 

2 have spoken to thee against Jerusalem and against Juda and 
against all the nations from the day I first spoke to thee—from 
3 the days of Josias king of Juda even to this day. Perhaps the 
house of Juda will hear all the evils which I purpose to do to 
them, that they may turn from their evil way and that I may 
A be merciful to their iniquities and their sins. Thereupon Jere- 
mias sent for Baruch, son of Nerias, and he wrote in a book, 
from the mouth of Jeremias, all the words which the Lord had 
5 spoken to him. Then Jeremias gave a charge to Baruch, say- 
ing, 1 am watched so that I cannot go to the house of the Lord; 
6 therefore thou shalt read from this roll in the hearing of the 
_ people in the house of the Lord on the fast day, even in the 
hearing of all Juda who come from their cities thou shalt read 
7 to them. Perhaps they may find favour in the sight of the Lord 
and turn from their evil way, for great is the wrath and the 
anger of the Lord which he hath denounced against this peo- 
ple. 
8 So Baruch did according to all that Jeremias commanded 
him, that he might read from the book the words of the Lord 
9 in the house of the Lord. And it came to pass that in the eighth 
year of the reign of Joakim, in the ninth month, all the people 
in Jerusalem and the house of Juda kept a solemn fast before 

10 the Lord. And Baruch read from the book the words of Jere- 
mias in the house of the Lord in the house of Gamarias son of 
Saphan the scribe, in the upper court at the vestibule of the 
new gate of the house of the Lord and in the hearing of all the 

11 people. And when Michaias son of Gamarias son of Saphan 
heard all the words of the Lord from the book, he went down 

12 to the king’s house, to the house of the secretary; and lo! all 
the chiefs were there in council, namely, Elisamathe secretary, 
and Dalias son of Selemias, and Jonathan son of Achobar and. 


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Gamarias son of Saphan and Sedekias son of Ananiasand all 
33 the chiefs. And when Michaias told them all the words which 
he had heard, which Baruch read in the hearing of the people, 
all the chiefs sent Judin son of Nathanias son of Selemias, son 
14 of Chusi to Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll thou art 
reading to the people and come. Accordingly Baruch took the 
15 roll and went down to them. And they said to him, Read it 
16 again to us. So Baruch read it. And when they had heard all 
the words, they consulted, and said one to another, We must 
17 certainly inform the king ofall these words. Then they ques- 
tioned Baruchand said, Where didst thou write all these words? 
18 And Baruch said, From his mouth. Jeremias dictated to me all 
19 these words and I wrote them in a book. Then they said to 
Baruch, Go and hide, both thou and Jeremias and let no man 
20 know where you are. Then they went to court to the king, but 
left the roll in safe keeping in the house of Elisamas and they 
21 told the king all the words. And the king sent Judin jor the 
book. And Judin having brought it from the house of Elisa- 
mas read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all 
the chiefs who were eae round the king. 
22 + Now the king was sitting in the winter house and there 
23 was a grate with fire in it before him. So as Judin read three 
or four folds, he cut them off with the secretary’s knife and 
94 threw them into the fire in the grate, till the whole roll was 
consumed in the fire. But neither the king nor his servants, | 
who heard all these words, made any inquiry nor rent their 
25 clothes. Nay Elnathan and Godolias suggested to the king to 
26 burn the roll. Then the king commanded Jeremeel the king’s 
son and Saraias son of Esriel to apprehend Baruch and Jere- 
mias. But they had hid themselves. 
27 And after the king had burned the roll—all the words 
which Baruch had written from the mouth of Jeremias, a word 
28 of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying, Take thee another roll 
and write all the words which were in that roll which king 
Joakim hath burned, and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, 
29 Thou hast burned that roll, saying, ‘‘ Why hast thou written 
therein and said the king of Babylon shall surely come and lay 
waste this land, so that neither man nor beast shall be left there-. 
30 in;” therefore thus said the a respecting Joakim king of 


ΧΧΧν. JEREMIAS. 


Juda, He shall not have one to sit on the throne of David; and 

_ his carcass shall be exposed to the heat of the day and to the 

31 frost of the night: and I will keep a watch upon him and upon 

his family and upon his servants and bring upon him and 

upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the land of Juda 

all the evils which I have denounced against them and to 
which they have not hearkened. 

32 So Baruch took another roll and wrote thereon from the 

mouth of Jeremias all the words of the book which Joakim 

had burned and to it were added more words similar to them. 


XXXV. XV. The word which came to Jeremias from the 

2 Lord in the days of Joakim king of Juda, saying, Go to the fa- 

mily of Archabin and thou shalt bring them to the house of the 

8 Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink. Ac- 

cordingly I brought Jechonias son of Jeremin son of Chaba- 

sin with his brethren and his sons, even all the family of Archa- 

4, bin, and took them into the house of the Lord, to the chamber 

of the sons of Jonan son of Ananias son of Godolias, a man of 

God, which is near the house of the chiefs who are above the 

5 house of Maasias son of Selom, the keeper of the court. And 

having set before them a pot of wine and drinking cups, I said, 

6 drink wine. Thereupon they said, We must not drink wine. 

For Jonadab son of Rechab our father gave us a charge, say- 

ing, You shall not drink wine; neither you nor your sons for- 

7 ever; neither shall you build houses, nor sow seed, nor have a 

vineyard; for you shall dwell in tents all your days, that you 

8 may live many days in the land where you sojourn. Accord- 

ingly we have hearkened to the voice of Jonadab our father 

so as not to drink wine all our days, neither we nor our 

9 wives, nor our sons nor our daughters; and we have not 

10 built houses here to live in, nor have we vineyard, or field or 

seed; but have dwelt in tents and have hearkened and done ac- 

11 cording to all that our father Jonadab commanded us. So when 

Nabuchodonosar came up against the land, we determined 

upon coming and came to Jerusalem out of the way of the ar- 

my of the Chaldeans and out of the way of the army of the 
Assyrians, and here we haye made our abode. 


Ch. XXIII. XXIV. JEREMIAS. 


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Upon this a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Thus 
saith the Lord, Go and say to the men of Juda and to the inha- 
bitants of Jerusalem, Will you never receive instruction to 
hearken to my words? The children of Jonadab son of Rechab 
have stedfastly observed the command which he gave them 
not to drink wine : and they have not drunk any. But I have 
spoken to you, rising early; and you have not hearkened. 
Though I have sent to you my servants the prophets; saying, 
Turn ye, every one from his evil way, and amend your doings, 
and go not after strange gods to serve them, and you shall 
dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers; yet 
you have not inclined your ears nor hearkened. The sons of 
Jonadab son of Rechab have stedfastly observed the command 
of their father; but this people have not hearkened to me. 
Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will bring upon Ju- 
da and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evils which I 
have denounced against them. Therefore thus saith the Lord, 
Seeing the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have obeyed the 
command of their father and have done as he ordered them; 
there shall never be wanting a man of the sons of Jonadab son 
of Rechab to stand before me all the days of this land. 


XXIII. 40 XVI. BECAUSE of this prophesy (ch. 16, v. 14, 15) 


‘¢ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When they shall 
no more say, ‘‘Asthe Lord liveth who brought up the house 
of Israel, out of the land of Egypt,’’ but, ‘‘ As the Lord liveth 
who gathered all the seed of Israel from the land of the north 
and from all the countries whither he had driven them and re- 


XXIV. established them in their own land” the Lord shewed 
_me two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord, after 


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Nabuchodonosar the king of Babylon had carried away Je- 
chonias son of Joakim king of Juda and the chiefs and the ar- 
tisans and the prisoners of war and the rich men from Jerusa- 
tem and brought them to Babylon. The one was a basket of 
very fine figs, such as are first ripe; and the other was a bas- 
ket of very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. And. 
the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said, 
Figs. The good figs, very good : and the bad figs, very bad— 
so bad, that they cannot be eaten. Then a word of the Lord 


Ch. XXX. JEREMIAS. 


came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, 
Like these good figs so will I acknowledge for good those ba- 
nished Jews whom I have sent from this place to the land of 
6 the Chaldeans. And I will fix mine eves upon them for good 
and re-establish them in this land for good. And I will build 
7 them up and not pull them down: and I will plant them and 
not root them up: and I will give them a heart to know me, 
that I am the Lord : and they shall be my people, and I will 
be their God; for they will turn to me with their whole heart. 
ἜΝ But like those bad figs which for their badness cannot be 
eaten, thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver up Zedekias king 
of Juda and his nobles and the remnant of Jerusalem—them 
9 who are left in this land and them who dwell in Egypt. Them 
indeed I will devote to dispersion in all the kingdoms of the 
earth; and they shall be for a reproach and for a by-word and 
for a taunt and ἃ curse in every place whither I shall drive 
10 them. And 1 will send against them famine and pestilence and 
the sword, until they are utterly consumed from this land 
which I gave them. 


XXX. XVU. THE word which came from the Lord to Jere- 
mias, to wit. 

Thus spake the Lord the God of Israel, saying, Write all 
the words which I have delivered to thee in a book: for be- 
hold the days are coming saith the Lord when I will bring 
back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord; 
and I will bring them to this land, which I gave to their. fa- 
thers and they shall rule over it. | 

Now these are the words which the Lord spake concern- 
ing Israel and Juda. Thus said the Lord, You shall hear the 
sound of terror. It is terror and not peace. Inquire and see ! 
Hath a male ever brought forth? Now with respect to the ter- 
ror, in which they will hold their loins, it is indeed for a de- 
liverance. 

(p) Why then have I seen every man with his hands on 
his loins? ‘Their faces are turned to paleness. Ὁ 
7 (J) It is because that great day is come which is unparal- 

leled. It is indeed a distressful time to Jacob, but by this he 
8 shall be saved. In that day, saith the Lord, I will break the 


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yoke from their neck, and burst their bonds asunder; and they 
9 shall no more work for strangers. But they must work for the 
Lord their God and I will raise up for them David their king. 
12 Thus said the Lord, I raised up affliction; thy wound was 
13. grievous; there is none to plead thy cause; the attempts to 
14 cure thee increased thy pain; there is no relief for thee; all 
thy friends forgot thee ; they would make no inquiry for thee; 
because I inflicted on thee the wound of an enemy, a severe 
chastisement for all thine iniquity ; thy sins had multiplied : 
16 therefore all that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine 
enemies shall eat their own flesh. For the multitude of thine 
iniquities (thy sins indeed were multiplied) they have done all 
these things to thee; but they who plunder thee shall be for 
plunder; and all who have preyed upon thee, I will give fora 
17 prey. Because I will bring up the cure for thee I will cure 
thee, saith the Lord, of thy painful wound; because thou wast 
called the Outcast, the hunt is up after thee ; because there is 
18 none who seeketh this outcast, thus saith the Lord, Behold | 
myself will bring back the outcast of Jacob, and his captivity 
I will compassionate. And the city shall be rebuilt on its height; 
19 and the people shall sit for the administration of justice. And 
from them shall come forth singers—the sound of the sportive; 
~ 20 and I will multiply them and they shall not be diminished. And 
their sons shall come in as in former times; and their judicato- 
ries shall be established in my presence. And I will punish them 
21 who afflict them. His own mighties shall preside over them; 
and from him his own chief shall come forth; and he will ga- 
ther them that they may return to me—that he who hath given 
his heart, whoever he is, may return to me, saith the Lord. Be- 
23 cause the anger of the Lord hath gone forth—hath gone forth 
a furious anger, it will come whirling on the wicked—the fierce 
XXXI. anger of the Lord will not turn back, till he hath done—till 
he hathexecuted the purpose of his heart. In the latter days you 
will know these things. 
1 At that time, said the Lord, I will be the God of the fami- 
_ ly of Israel and they shall be my people. 
2 Thus said the Lord, I found him warm in. the wilderness 
among them who had perished by the sword. Go: you shall 
3 not destroy Israel. The Lord from afar hath appeared for him: 


Ch. ΧΧΧΙ. JEREMIAS. 


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with everlasting love I have loved thee; therefore I have drawn 
thee into compassion. For I will rebuild thee, and thou shalt 
be rebuilt. O virgin of Israel, again thou shalt take thy tim- 
brel, and go forth with a congregation of rejoicers. As you have 
planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria, plant and 
sing praises; for there shall be a day of invitation to them 
who make apologies on the mountains of Ephraim, “ Arise 


7 and go up to Sion to the Lord your God.’ For thus said 


the Lord to Jacob, Rejoice and shout at the head of na- 
tions ; issue proclamations and sing praises; say, ‘‘’The Lord 
hath saved his people, the remnant of Israel.”? Behold I will 
bring them from the north and gather them from the extremi- 
ty of the earth. At the festival of Phasek he shall have a multi- 
tude of children who shall return hither. They set out with 
weeping; but I will brmg them up with consolation, causing — 
them to rest at fountains of water in a straight road; and in it 
they shall not be led astray, for I am become a father to Israel, 
and Ephraim is my first born. Hear the words of the Lord, ye 
nations! and proclaim them to the far distant isles. Say, He, 
who scattered Israel, will gather them, and guard them as a 
shepherd doth his flock. Because the Lord hath redeemed Ja- 
cob—hath rescued him out of the hand of them who were 
stronger than he; therefore they shall come and rejoice on 
mount Sion. They shall indeed come to the good things of the 


Lord—to a land of corn and wine, and of fruits and herds and 


flocks; and their soul shall be like a fruitful tree; and they shall 
no more be hungry. Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly 
of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn 
their mourning into joy and make them glad. I will enlarge 
and satisfy the soul of the priests the sons of Levi. And my 
people shall be regaled with my good things. 

Thus said the Lord, There was heard at Rama a sound of 
Jamentation and weeping and wailing—Rachel, weeping for her 
children, refused to be comforted, because they are no more. 

Thus saith the Lord, Let thy voice refrain from lamenta- 
tion and thine eyes from tears. For there is a reward for thy 
works and they shall return from the enemies’ land. It is firm- 


ly established for thy children. I have heard the voice of 


Ephraim moaning, ‘‘ Thou hast chastised me and I have been 


Ch. ΧΧΧΙ. JEREMIAS. 


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20 


chastised. I like a bullock was uninstructed, bring me back 
that I may return; for thou art the Lord my God. For after my 
captivity I reformed and after I gained knowledge I groaned 
for my days of shame and shewed thee that 1 was ashamed. of 
my youth.’? Ephraim is a beloved son—my darling child ; 
since my words are in him I will surely remember him. For 


_ this cause I have been anxious for him, I will surely have 


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mercy upon him, saith the Lord. Establish thyself, O Sion; | 
take revenge—rouse up thy courage. By the way thou went- 
est return, O virgin of Israel—return to thy cities, O mourn- 
er. How long shall it be, ere thou wilt return, O despised 
daughter ! Since the Lord hath created safety for a new plan- 
tation, with safety men may walk about. For thus saith the 
Lord, Again they shall use this form of words in the land of 
Juda and in his cities when I have brought back his captivity, 
“Blessed be the Lord on his righteous, his holy mountain.” It 
shall be used by them who dwell in the cities of Juda and in all 
his land, and shall be repeated by the husbandman and among 
the flocks. For I have satisfied with drink every thirsty soul; 
and every soul that was hungry I have filled. 

(p) Upon this I awoke and beheld and my sleep was sweet 
to me. 

Therefore behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, 
when I will sow Israel and Juda with the seed of man and the 
seed of beast. And it shall be, that as I watched over them to 
pull down and waste, so I will watch over them to build up 
and plant, saith the Lord. In those days they shall no more say, 
“Our fathers ate a sour grape and the childrens’ teeth are set on 
edge.”? But every one shall die for his own sin, And whoever 
eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. Behold the 


days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new co- 


venant with the house of Israel and the house of Juda. Not ac- 

cording to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the 

day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the - 
land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of | 
mine, therefore I took no care of them. For this, saith the 
Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house. of 
Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws. 
to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I 


Ch. XXVII. JEREMIAS. 


34. will be their God and they shall be my people. And they shall 


37 


no more teach every man his neighbour, and every man his 
brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know me from the 
greatest to the least of them: for I will be merciful to their 
iniquities and no more remember their sins. 

Though the heaven is exalted very high, saith the Lord, 
and the surface of the earth is depressed far below, yet I will 
not reject the race of Israel, saith the Lord, for all that they 
have done, Thus said the Lord who hath given the sun to en- 
lighten the day and the moon and stars to enlighten the night, 
and hath caused the sea to roar and its billows to resound, the 
Lord Almighty is his name; If these laws cease to operate 
in my presence, saith the Lord, then may the race of Israel 
cease from being a nation before me forever. 

Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, whena city shall 
be built to the Lord from the tower of Anameel to the gate of 
the corner; and the diameter thereof shall extend forward as 
far as the hills of Gareb: and it shall be enclosed around with 
choice stones; and all the Asaremoth as far as Nachal Kedron, 
even to the corner of the horse gate eastward shall be dedicated 
to the Lord, and it shall no more fail nor shall it be demolish- 
ed until the age. 


XXVII. XVIII. 2 THUS said the Lord, Make thee 
_ chains and yokes and put them about thy neck; and thou shalt 


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send them to the king of Idumea and to the king of Moab and 
to the king of the Ammonites and to the king of Tyre and to 
the king of Sidon by the hands of their ambassadors, who are 
coming to meet those sent to Jerusalem to Sedekias king of 
Juda: and thou shalt charge them to say to their masters, 

Thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, Thus shall you say 
to your masters, As I have made the earth by my great power 
and by my outstretched arm, I can give it to whom it seem- 
eth good in mine eyes. I have given this land to Nabuchodo- 
nosar king of Babylon to serve him, and the beasts of the field 
to work for him. And the nation and the kmgdom—all who 
-will not submit their neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon, 
them I will visit with sword and famine, said the Lord, until 
they are consumed by his hand. Therefore hearken not to your 


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XXVIII. JEREMIAS. 


false prophets, nor to them who divine or dream for you, nor — 
to your augurers, nor your sorcerers who say, You shall not 
serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy lies to you to re- 
move you far from your land. But the nation which shall sub- 


mit its neck to the yoke of the king of Babylon and work for 


him, that nation I will leave in its own land. It laboureth for 
him and it shall dwell therein. 

So I spoke to Sedekias king of Juda ions to all these 
words, saying, Submit your neck to work for the king of Ba- 
bylon. For these men prophesy falsehoods to you; for I have 
not sent them, saith the Lord. They indeed prophesy in my 
name for falsehood to destroy you; therefore you shall be de- 
stroyed, both you and your prophets who prophesy to you for 
unjust falsehood. To you and to all this people and to the 
priests [have spoken, saying, Thus said the Lord, Hearken 
not to the words of those prophets who prophesy to you say- 
ing, “Behold the vessels of the house of the Lord shall be 
brought back from Babylon.” For they prophesy falsities to 
you. I have not sent them. If they are prophets; if the word of 
the Lord is in them, let them meet me. For thus saith the 
Lord, Even the residue of the vessels which the king of Baby- 
lon did not take when he carried away Jechonias from Jerusa- 
lem, shall go to Babylon, saith the Lord. 


XXVIII. Again it came to pass in the fourth year of Sedeki- 


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as king of Juda, in the fifth month, that Ananias son of Azor, 
the false prophet from Gabaon spoke to me in the house of the 
Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, 
saying, Thus said the Lord, I have broken the yoke of the 
king of Babylon—yet two years of days and I will bring back 
to this place the vessels of the house of the Lord, and Jecho- 
nias and the captives of Juda; for I have broken the yoke of 
the king of Babylon. Thereupon Jeremias said to Ananias in 
the presence of all the people and in the presence of the priests 
who were standing in the house of the Lord, “‘May the Lord 
indeed do so, said Jeremias; may he establish the word which 
thou hast spoken, by bringing back the vessels of the house of 
the Lord and all the captives from Babylon to this place. Ne- 
vertheless hear ye the word of the Lord, which I speak in your . 


hearing and in the hearing of all the people. ‘There have been 


Ch. XXIX. JEREMIAS. 


prophets of old before me, and before you, who have prophesied 
9 of war against many a land and against great kingdoms. As for 
the prophet who hath prophesied peace; when his word ¢om- 
eth to pass let the people acknowledge him as a prophet whom 

10 the Lord hath indeed sent to them.”’ Then in the presence of 
all the people, Ananias took the yokes from the neck of Jere- 

11 mias and broke them. And Ananias spoke before all the peo- 
ple, saying, ‘“‘Thus said the Lord, So will I break the yoke of 
the king of Babylon from the necks ofall the nations.” So ! ε- 
remias went his way. 

12 And there came a word of the Lord to Jeremias, after Ana- 
nias had broken the yokes from his neck, saying, ‘Go and 

13 speak to Ananias and say, Thus said the Lord, Thou hast bro- 
ken wooden yokes; but instead of them I will make yokes of 

14 iron. For thus said the Lord, I have put an iron yoke on the 
neck of all the nations, that they may work for the king of Ba- 

15. bylon.”’ Then Jeremias said to Ananias, the Lord hath not sent 

16 thee; and thou hast made this people trust in a lie. For this 
cause thus saith the Lord, ‘Behold I send thee from the face 

17 of the earth. This very year thou shalt die.”’ So he died in the 
seventh month. , 

XXIX. Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias 
sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity and to the 
priests and to the false prophets, —After the departure of king 
Jechonias and of the queen and the chamberlains and of every 

2 nobleman and prisoner of war and artificer from Jerusalem [I 
sent | to Babylon by the hand of Eleasan son of Saphan and of 
3 Gamarias son of Chelkias whom Sedekias king of Juda sent 
to the king of Babylon at Babylon, a letter for the captives ad- 
5 dressed to all the people saying, Thus said the Lord the God of 
Israel to the captivity whom I have exiled from Jerusalem, 
‘Build houses and. dwell therein; and plant orchards and eat the 
6 fruits thereof; and take wives and beget sons and daughters; 
take wives also for your sons and give your daughters in-mar- 
riage; and multiply and be not diminished; and study the peace 
of the country to which I have exiled you; and pray to. the 
& Lord for the people; for in their peace you will have peace. 
For thus said the Lord, Let not the false prophets among 
you deceive you; nor let your diviners deceive you; nor 


ΕΠ ΧΙ. JEREMIAS. 


10 hearken to your dreams which you dream. For ‘they pro- 
phesy falsehood to you in my name, and I have not sent them. 
For thus said the Lord, When seventy years shall be accom- 
plished at Babylon, I will visit you and establish my words for 

11 you by bringing back your people to this place. When I plan 

12 apurpose of peace and not evils against you, to grant you this, 

13 then pray to me and I will hearken to you: then seek me dili- 

14 gently and you shall find me. Becausé¢ you will seek me with 
your whole heart, therefore I will manifest myself to you.” ἡ 

15 Because you said, The Lord hath raised up prophets for 

21 usin Babylon, thus said the Lord against Achiab and against 

- Sedekias, behold I deliver them into the hands of the king of 

22 Babylon and he will smite them before your eyes. And among 
all the captives of Juda at Babylon ; they shall from them use 
an execration saying, ‘‘ ‘The Lord deal with thee as he did 
with Sedekias, and as he did with Achiab whom the king of Ba- 

23 bylon roasted with fire,”’ because they have committed iniquity 
in Israel and have committed adultery with the wives of their 
fellow citizens, and have delivered as prophets a word in my 
name, which I did not give them in charge. I myself am witness 

24 saith the Lord. And to Samaias the Ailamite thou shalt say, I 

25 did not send thee: yet in my name he said to Sophonias son of 

26 Maasias, the priest, “" Τῆς Lord hath made thee priest in the 
room of Jodae the priest, to be a ruler in the house of the 
Lord, over every man who prophesieth, and over every man 
who divineth, that thou mayst commit him to prison, and 

27 confine him in a dungeon.’’ Now why have you reviled Je- 

28 remias of Anathoth who prophesied to you ? Was it not for 
this purpose that information was given that within this month 
he had sent to you to Babylon, saying, Your return is far off; 

build houses and dwell therein; plant orchards and eat the 

29 fruits thereof. When Sophonias read this letter in the hearing of 

30 Jeremias, a word of the Lord came to Jeremias saying, Send 

31 tothe captives, and say, Thus said the Lord, against Sama- 
ids the Ailamite, Because Samaias hath prophesied to you, 
and I did not send him, and he hath made you trust in false- 
hoods, therefore thus said the Lord, Behold 1 will punish 

- Samaias and his family, and there shall not be a man of them 


Ch. ΧΧΙ. XXXIV. JEREMIAS. 


_ among you to see the good things which I will do for you. 


They shall not see them, 


ΧΧΙ. XIX. THE word which came from the Lord to Je- 


remias when king Sedekias sent to him Paschor son of Mel- 


2 chias, and Sophonias son of Basaias the priest saying, Inquire 


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of the Lord concerning us for the king of Babylon is come 
against us. Will the Lord do according to all his wonderous 
works that he may depart from us. Thereupon Jeremias said 
to them, Thus shall you say to Sedekias king of Juda, Thus 
saith the Lord, Behold I turn back the weapons of war with 
which you fight against the Chaldeans who have besieged you 
without the wall. And I will bring them into this city. I 
myself indeed will fight against you with an outstretched hand 
and a strong arm, with wrath and with great indignation. And 
I will smite all the inhabitants of this city, both men and beasts 
with a great pestilence, and they shall die. And after that, saith 
the Lord, I will deliver Sedekias king of Juda and his servants 
and the people left in this city from the pestilence and from the 
famine and from the sword, into the hands of their enemies 
who seek their lives, and they shall smite them with the edge 
of the sword. I will not spare them, nor will I have compas- 
sion on them. And to this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the 
Lord, Behold I have set before you the way of life and the way 
of death. He who abideth in this city, shall die by the sword 
and famine, but he who goeth out to the Chaldeans who have 
besieged you, he shall live. His life shall be given him for a 
spoil and he shall live. For I have set my face against this 
city for evils and not for good. It shall be delivered into the 
hands of the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire. 
With respect to the house of the king of Juda, hear a word 
of the Lord, O house of David. Thus saith the Lord, Admi- 
nister judgment in the morning and relieve and deliver the spoil- 
ed out of the hand of him who wrongeth him, that my wrath 
may not be kindled like a fire and blaze so that none can 
quench it. 


XXXIV. XX. THE word which. came to Jeremias from 


the Lord, when Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, with all his 
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army and every country under his dominion were warring 
against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Juda, saying, 

Thus said the Lord, Go to Sedekias king of Juda and say 
to him, Thus said the Lord, This city shall assuredly be de- 
livered into the hands of the king of Babylon; and he shall 
take it, and burn it with fire. And thou shalt not escape out 
of his hand. Thou shalt indeed be taken and delivered into 
his hands ; and thine eyes shall see his eyes ; and to Babylon 
thou shalt go. “i 

Nevertheless hear the word of the Lord, O Sedekias king 
of Juda, Thus said the Lord, Thou shalt die in peace; and 
as they bewailed thy fathers who reigned before thee so will 
they bewail thee with ‘Alas Lord” and utter a lamentation 
for thee at thy burial; for I have spoken the word said the 
Lord. 

So Jeremias delivered to king Sedekias all these words 
at Jerusalem when the army of the king of Babylon was war- 
ring against Jerusalem and against the cities of Juda namely 


against Lachis and against Azeka; for they were the only 


fortified cities which were left of the cities of Juda. 


XXI. The word which came to Jeremias from the Lord. 

After king Sedekias had made a covenant with the people 
to proclaim a release, that every man should set free his man 
servant and his maid servant of Hebrew extraction so that no 
person of Juda should continue in slavery; when all the nobles 
and all the people who had entered into covenant, to set free 


1 every one his man servant, and his maid servant, altered 


their minds and compelled them to become their servants ; 
thereupon a word of the Lord came to Jeremias saying, Thus 
said the Lord, I made a covenant with your fathers, at the 
time I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the 
house of bondage, saying, When six years are accomplished 
thou shalt set at liberty thy brother, a Hebrew, who shall be 
sold to thee. When he hath worked for thee six years, thou 
shalt let him go free. But they have not hearkened to me, 
nor inclined their ear. And now when they turned to do what , 
is right in my sight, by proclaiming a general release, every 
one to his neighbour; and had made a covenant in my pre- 


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sence in the house which is called by my name; you have 
turned back and profaned my name, by causing every one his 
man servant, and every one his maid servant whom you had. 
sent away free at their own disposal, to return and become your 
servants: therefore thus said the Lord, You have not hearkened 
to me to proclaim a general release, every one to his neighbour ; 
behold, I proclaim a dismission of you to the sword, and to pes- 
tilence and to famine; and I will deliver you up to dispersion in 
all the kingdoms of the earth. I will indeed give up the men 
who have transgressed my covenant—them, who have not 
stood to this covenant of mine which they entered into in my 
presence—as the labouring bullock which they sacrificed 1 will 
deliver up the chiefs of Juda and the rulers, and the priests, 
and the people themselves to their enemies: and their car- 
casses shall be meat for the birds of the air and the beasts of 
the earth: and I will deliver Sedekias king of Judea, and 
their chiefs, into the hands of their enemies. And as for the 
army of the king of Babylon, even to them who are retreating, 
behold I am about to issue orders, saith the Lord, and I will 
cause them to return to this city. And they shall fight against 
it, and take it and burn it with fire. And I will make the cities 
of Juda a desolation, without inhabitants. 


XXXVII. XXII. When Sedekias son of Josias, whom Nabu- 


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chodonosar had made king over Juda, reigned in the room of 
Joakim, and neither he nor his servants nor the people of the 
land hearkened to the words which the Lord spoke by the mi- 
nistry of Jeremias and king Sedekias : sent Joachel son of Sele- 
mias and Sophonias son of Maasias the priest to Jeremias say- 
ing, Pray now to the Lord for us. (Now Jeremias went out and 
came in through the midst of the city and they had not com- 
mitted him to prison, and the army of Pharao had come out of 
Egypt, and the Chaldeans had heard the news of them when 
they came up against Jerusalem.) Then a word of the Lord 
came to Jeremias, saying, Thus said the Lord, Thus shalt 
thou say to the king of Juda who hath sent to thee to inquire 
of me, Behold the army of Pharao which is coming to your 
assistance shall turn back to the land of Egypt, and the Chalde- 


Ch. XXXII. JEREMIAS. 


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ans shall return and fight against this city and take it and burn ἢ 
it with fire. For thus said the Lord, Flatter not yourselves, 
saying, “The Chaldeans are retreating; they will depart from 
us.” For they shall not depart. Nay, though you should smite 
all the army of the Chaldeans who are warring against you 
and only some wounded men should be left, every one in his 
place; these shall rise up and burn this city with fire. 

Now when the army of the Chaldeans left Jerusalem, on 
account of the army of Pharao, Jeremias was going out of Je- 
rusalem among the people with a design to go to the land of 
Benjamin, to make thence some purchase; but when he was at 
the gate of Benjamin, a man there at whose house he stopped 
namely Sarouia son of Selemias, son of Ananias, took hold of 
Jeremias, saying, Thou art fleeing to the Chaldeans. To which 
he replied, It is false. I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans. But 
Sarouia hearkened not to him, but took hold of Jeremias and 
brought him to the chiefs. And thechiefs were enraged at Jere- 
mias and smote him and committed him to the house of Jona- 
than the scribe; for they had made that a prison. And when 
Jeremias had gone into the lowest apartment, even into the 
Chereth, and had been there many days, Sedekias sent for 
him. And the king asked him privately to tell him whether 
there was a message from the Lord. And Jeremias said, There 
is. Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Ba- 
bylon. Then Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I offend- 
ed thee and thy servants and this people, that thou hast com- 
mitted me to prison? Where now are your prophets who pro- 
phesied to you saying, ““The king of Babylon shall not come 
against this land?” Now therefore, my Lord the king, let me 
find favour in thy sight. Why art thou sending me back to the 
house of Jonathan the scribe? Must I not die there? Thereupan 
the king gave orders and they committed him tothe guard 
house and gave him a loaf of bread a day from the bake house 
until all the bread in the city was spent. So Jeremias remained 
in the court of the prison. | 


XXXIT. XXIII. THE word which came from the Lord to Jere- 


mias in the tenth year of king Sedekias; this was the eighteenth | 
year of the reign of Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon. When 


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the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and 
Jeremias was confined in the court of the prison which is in 
the king’s house, to which king Sedekias had confined him, 
saying, “Why dost thou prophesy and say, thus said the 
Lord, Behold I deliver this city into the hands of the king of 
Babylon and he shall take it; and Sedekias shall not escape out 
of the hands of the Chaldeans, for he shall assuredly be deliver- 
ed into the hands of the king of Babylon who shall speak to 
him mouth to mouth and his eyes shall see his eyes: and Sede- 
kias shall go to Babylon.’’ Now when he was there, the word of 
the Lord came to Jeremias, saying, Behold Anameel son of Sa- 
lom thy father’s brother is coming to thee and will say, Buy 
thee my field which is at Anathoth, for the right of purchase is 
in thee. 

Accordingly Anameel son of Salom my father’s brother 
came to me in the court of the prison and said, Buy thee my 
field which is in the land of Benjamin, that at Anathoth, for 
the right of purchase is in thee as thou art the eldest. Upon 
this I knew that it was a word of the Lord, so I bought the 
field of Anameel, my father’s brother’s son and paid him se- 
venteen shekels of silver. And when I had signed the writing 
and sealed it and had it witnessed and had paid the money by 
weight, I took the deed of possession which was sealed and 
gave it to Baruch, son of Nerias son of Maasias in the presence 
of Anameel my father’s brother’s son, and in the presence of 
the byestanders who had signed the deed of purchase, and in 
the presence of the Jews who were in the court of the prison; 
and in their presence I gave a charge to Baruch, saying, Thus 
said the Lord Almighty, Take this deed of possession, even 
this deed which hath been read, and put it in an earthen vessel 
that it may remain there many days. For thus said the Lord, 
Fields and houses and vineyards shall again be possessed in 
this land. And after I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch 
son of Nerias, I prayed to the Lord, saying, 

O self-existent Lord, Thou hast made the heaven and the 
earth by thy great power and by thy high and exalted arm. 
From thee nothing can be hid. Thou shewest mercy to thou- 
sands and retributest the sins of fathers into the bosoms of their 
children after them. Thou art the God, the Great, the Mighty 


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One, the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in works, the 


Mighty Omnipotent God, and the Lord of great renown. ‘Thine 


eyes are on the ways of the children of men to give to every 
one according to his way. Thou hast done signs and wonders 


in the land of Egypt which continue even to this day; and in 
“Israel and among the inhabitants of the earth; and hast made 


thyself a name as at this day. Thou didst bring thy people Is- 
rael out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders and with 
a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with stupendous 
visions, and gavest them this land which with an oath thou 
hadst promised to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and 
honey. But when they entered in and had taken possession 
of it, they hearkened not to thy voice nor walked in thy sta- 
tutes. They did notdo all that thou commandedst them, so they 
have brought upon themselves all these evils. Behold a mul- 
titude is come up against this city to take it; and this: city is 
about to be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans who are 
fighting against it, by reason of the sword and famine. Asthou 
hast spoken, so it hath come to pass. Now thou sayest to me, 
Buy thee afield for money. Accordingly I have signed the deed 


‘of purchase and sealed it and had it witnessed; though the 


city is about to be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. 
Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, I the Lord 
am:the God of all flesh. From me nothing can be hid. There- 


fore thus said the Lord the God of Israel, This city will assur- 


edly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and 
he will take it. And the Chaldeans who are fighting against 
this city will come ‘and burn this city with fire; and they will 
burn those houses on the tops of which they have offered. in- 
cense to Baal and poured out libations to strange gods, to pro- 
voke me. Because the children of Israel and the children of 
Juda have done nothing but evil before mine eyes from their 
youth—because this very city hath been an object of my wrath 
and of my resentment from the day it was built to this day; let 
him remove it from my presence on account of all the iniqui- 
ties of the children of Israel and Juda, which they and their kings 
and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets, the men of 
Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done to provoke | 
me. For they have turned to me their back and.not their. face. 


Ch. X XXIII. JEREMIAS. 


᾿ Though I taught them betimes, they would no more receive 
34 instruction, but have set up their abominations in the house 
which is called by my name, and polluted it with their impuri- 
35 ties; and have built up the altars to Baal which were in the val- 
ley of the son of Ennom to offer up their sons and their daugh- 
ters to king Moloch—a thing which I never commanded them, 
nor did it ever come into my mind that they should commit 
such an abomination to cause Juda to transgress heinously. 
36 But now thus said the Lord the God of Israel respecting 
this city, which as thou sayest shall be delivered into the hands 
37 of the king of Babylon by sword and by famine and by pesti- 
lence; behold I will gather them from every land through 
which I have in my wrath and in my great indignation dispers- 
ed them: and I will bring them back to this place and cause 
38 them to live securely. And they shall be my people and I will 
39 be their God. And I will give them another way and another 
heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to 
40 them and their children after them. And I will make an ever- 
lasting covenant with them, which I will not turn away from 
them; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not 
41 apostatise from me; and I will watch over them to do them 
good, and plant them in this land with faithfulness even with 
42 my whole heart and soul. For thus said the Lord, as I have 
brought upon this people all these great evils, so I will bring 
43 upon them all these good things, which I have spoken concern- 
ing them. And fields shall again be purchased in this land 
which as thou sayest shall be untrodden by men and beasts 
44 when they are delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. And 
they shall purchase fields for money. And thou shalt subscribe 
deeds and seal them and cause them to be witnessed in the 
land of Benjamin and around Jerusalem and in the cities of 
Juda and in the cities of the mountain and in the cities of Se- 
phela and in the cities of Nageb; for I will bring back their 
captivities. 


XXXII. XXIV. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to Je- 
remias a second time while he was still a prisoner in the court 

2 of the prison, saying, Thus saith the Lord, the maker ef the 
3 earth, who formed it that he might regulate it. His name is 


Ch. ΧΧΧΙΠ. JEREMIAS. 


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the Lord; Cry to me and I will answer thee and shew thee 
great and marvellous things which thou hast not known. For 
thus said the Lord concerning the houses of this city; and 
concerning the houses of the king of Juda which have been 
pulled down to make mounts and ramparts to fight against the 
Chaldeans and to fill the city with the carcasses of men whom 
I have slain in mine indignation and in my wrath; and from 
whom 1 have turned away my face for all their wicked deeds; 
behold I am raising up for it a cure for wounds and a restora- 
tive, which I will shew them, and I will heal it and give it peace 
and fidelity. And I will bring back the captivity of Juda and 


‘the captivity of Israel; and I will build them up as in former 


times. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquities which 
they have committed against me, and no more remember the 
sins which they sinned against me, when they apostatised 
from me. And it shall be for a joy and praise and for a sub- 
ject of exultation to all the people of the earth who shall hear 
all the good things which I will do. And they will be struck 
with awe and remorse for all the good and for all the peace 
which I will procure for them. 

Thus said the Lord, In the place which you say is a desert 
without men and beasts—in the cities of Juda and in the streets 
of Jerusalem which have been desolate so as to have neither 
man nor beast, there shall be heard again the sound of joy 
and the sound of mirth; the voice of the bridegroom and the 
voice of the bride; the voice of people, saying, ‘ Praise 
the Lord Almighty; for the Lord is gracious; for his mercy 
endureth forever.”? And they shall bring gifts to the house of 
the Lord. For I will bring back all the captivity of this land, 
as in former times, saith the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, There shall be again in this 
very place which shall be desolate, without man or beast, in 
all the cities belonging to it lodging places for shepherds fold- 
ing flocks. In the cities of the hilly country and in the cities of 
Scphela, and in the cities of Nageb and in the land of Benja- 
min and in those around Jerusalem and in the cities of Juda, 
flocks shall again pass under the hand of him that counteth 
them, said the Lord. 


Ch. XXXVIII. JEREMIAS. 


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dolias son of Paschor and Joachal son of Semelias, heard the 
words which Jeremias spoke concerning the people saying, 
‘“‘ Thus said the Lord, He who abideth in this city shall die by 
the sword and the famine; but he who goeth out to the Chal- 
deans shall live. He shall have his life for a spoil. He shall live. 
For thus said the Lord, This city shall certainly be delivered 
into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon and he shall 
take it,” they said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be 
put out of the way; for he weakeneth the hands of the warriors 
who are left in the city and the hands of all the people by 
making such speeches to them. For this man prophesieth not 
peace to the people, but only evils. And the king said, Be- 
hold he is in your hands. For the king could not withstand 
them. So they threw him into the dungeon of Melchias the 
king’s son which was in the court of the prison. And when 
they had lowered him down into the dungeon, there was 
no water in the dungeon, but there was mire; and he 
was in the mire. But when Abdemelech, the Ethiopian, 
who was in the king’s family, heard that they had put Jere- 
mias in the dungeon, as the king was at the gate of Benja- 
min, he went out to him and spoke to the king, and said, Thou 
hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out 
of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city. 
Thereupon the king gave orders to Abdemelech, saying, 
Take hence with thee thirty men and draw him up out of the 
dungeon, that he may not die. So Abdemelech took.the men 
and went to the king’s house, into the cellar, and took thence 
old rags and old ropes and threw them down to Jeremias into 
the dungeon, and said, Put those under the ropes. And when 
Jeremias had done so, they drew him up with the ropes out of 
the dungeon. And Jeremias abode in the court of the prison. 
And the king sent and ordered him to come to him tothe house 
Aseleisel which is in the house of the Lord. And the king said 


— to him, I willask thee'a word and thou mustnot conceal any thing 


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from me. And Jeremias said to the king, If I tell thee, wilt “ae 


᾿ not putmeto death? Andif I give thee counsel, perhaps thou wilt 


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not hearken to me. Then the king swore to’him, saying, As 


the Lord liveth who made us this soul, 1 will not put thee to 
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Ch. XXXIX. JEREMIAS. 


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Jeremias said, Thus said the Lord, If thou wilt go out to the 
generals of the king of Babylon, thy soul shall live and this 
city will not be burned with fire. Both thou and thy family 
shall live. But if thou wilt not go out, this city will be deliver- 
ed into the hands of the Chaldeans and they will burn it with 
fire; and thou shalt not escape. And the king said to Jeremias, 
I am afraid of the Jews who have fled to the Chaldeans, lest 
upon being delivered inte their hand they make me a mock- 
ing stock. And Jeremias replied, Thou wilt not be delivered 
up to them, Hear the word of the Lord which I spéak to thee 
and it will be better for thee and thy soul shall live. But if thou 
wilt not go out, this is the word which the Lord hath revealed 
to me, 

‘« And behold all the women who were left in the house of 
the king of Juda were brought out to the chiefs of the king of 
Babylon. And they said, Thy men of peace deceived thee, 
and will prevail over thee. And with a fall they will weaken 
thy foot. They are gone from thee. And thy wives and thy 
children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans. And thou shalt 
not escape. For by the hand of the king of Babylon thou shalt 
be taken and this city shall be burned.” 

Then the king said to him, Let no man know any of these 
words, and thou shalt not be put to death. And if the chiefs 
hear that .I have spoken to thee and come to thee and say, Tell 
us, What did the king say to thee? Hide it not from us and 
we will not put thee to death. What did the king say to thee? 
Then thou shalt say to them, I presented my supplication be- 
fore the king that he would not send me back to the house 
of Jonathan to die there. So when all the chiefs came to 
Jeremias and questioned him, he answered them according 
to all the words which the king commanded and they were si- 
lent; for the word of the Lord was net heard. So Jeremias re- 
mained in the court of the prison until Jerusalem was taken. 


XXXIX. Now it came to pass that in the ninth year and ninth 


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month of Sedekias king of Juda, Nabuchodonosar king of Ba- 
bylon with all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged 
it. And in the eleventh year of Sedekias in the fourth month on 
the ninth day of the month, a breach was made into the city ; 


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vand all the generals of the king of Babylon entered and sat in 


the middle gate, namely, Marganasar, and Samagoth and Na- 
busachar and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the 
rest of the generals of the king of Babylon; and they sent and 
took Jeremias out of the court of the prison and committed 
him to Godolias son of Achikam son of Saphan. And when 
they brought him out he sat down among the people. 

Now there had come to Jeremias in the court of the prison 
a word of the Lord, saying, Go and say to Abdemelech the 
Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord the God of Israel, Behold I 
will bring my words on this city for evils and not for good. But 
I will save thee on that day and not deliver thee into the hands 
of those men of whom thou art afraid. For I will save thee and 
thou shalt not fall by the sword. And thou shalt have thy life 
fora spoil, because thou hast trusted in me, said the Lord. 


XL. XXVI. The word which came Jrom the Lord to Jeremias 


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after Nabusardan the chief cook, he who was of Rama, had 
dismissed him. 

WHEN the chief cook found him in chains in the midst 
of the captives of Juda who were to be carried to Babylon, he 
took him and said to him, ‘The Lord thy God hath denounced 
all these evils against this place, and the Lord hath done them, 
because you sinned against him and did not hearken to his 
voice. Behold I have loosed thee from the chains which were 
on thy hands. If it seemeth good to thee to go with me to Ba- 
bylon, I will have an eye over thee. But if not, Go thy way. 
Return to Godolias son of Achikam son of Saphan whom the 
king of Babylon hath set over the land of Juda and dwell with 
him among the people in the land of Juda. Go whithersoever it 
scemeth best in thine eyes to go. So the chief cook gave him 
gifts and dismissed him; and he went to Godolias to Massepha 
and dwelt among his people who were left in the land. Now 
when all the generals of the army in the country, both they and 
their men heard that the king of Babylon had set Godolias over 
the land, and had committed to him the men and their wives 
whom he had not removed to Babylon, there came to Godolias, 
at Massepha, Ismael son of Nathanias and Joanan son of Karae 
and Saraias son of Thanaemeth and the sons of J ophe the Ne- 


Ch. XLI. JEREMIAS. 


9 tophathite and Ezonias son of Mochathi, they and their men; 
and Godolias swore to them and their men, saying, Be not 
afraid of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land and serve the king 

10 of Babylon, and it will be better for you. As for me, behold 
I reside before you, at Massepha to meet the Chaldeans who 
may come against you. Butas for you, collect wine and sum- 
mer fruits and oil and lay them up in your vessels and dwell in 

11 the cities which you have taken possession of. All the Jews 
also who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and those 
in Idumea and in all that country, when they heard that the 
king of Babylon had left a remnant for Juda and had set Go- 

12 dolias son of Achikam over them, came to Godolias into the 
land of Juda to Massepha, and collected wine and summer 

13 fruits in great abundance, and oil. And Joanan son of Karae 
and all the generals of the army who were in the country came 

14 to Godolias to Massepha and said to him, Dost thou know that 
Beleissa king of the Ammonites hath sent Ismael to thee, to 

15 take thy life. But Godolias did not believe them. And when 
Joanan said privately to Godolias at Massepha, ‘‘ Let me, I 
pray thee, go and smite Ismael and let none know it; lest he 
kill thee; and all Juda who are gathered to thee, be dispersed 

16 and the remnant of Juda perish.” Godolias said to Joanan, 
Thou must not do this: for what thou sayest of Ismael is 
false. | 

ΧΙ. Now it came to pass that in the seventh month Ismael son of 
Nathanias son of Eleasa of the royal family and ten chief men with 
him came to Godolias at Massephaand they there ate bread toge- 

2 ther: And Ismael arose and the ten chiefs who were with him, 

3 and smote Godolias whom the king of Babylon had set over 
the land, and all the Jews who were with him at Massepha 

A and all the Chaldeans who were found there. And it happened 
that on the second day after he had slain Godolias and it was 

5 not generally known, there came eighty men from Sychem 
and from Salem and from Samaria, with their beards shaven 
and their clothes rent and in deep mourning, with manna and 
frankincense in their hands, to make an offering for the house 

6 of the Lord. And Ismael went out to meet them as they were 
proceeding on in their journey weeping, and said to them, Come 

7 to Godolias. And when they were come into the midst of the 


Ch. XLII. JEREMIAS. 


8 city he slew them at the pit. But there were ten men among 
them who said to Ismael, Do not kill us; for we have treasures 
in a field, wheat and barley, honey and oil. So he forbore and 
did not kill them among their brethren. Now the pit, into 
which Ismael threw all that he had slain, was that great pit 
10 which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel. This 
Ismael filled with the slain. And Ismael carried away all the 
people who were left at Massepha and the king’s daughters 
whom the chief cook had committed to the care of Godolias 
son of Achikam; and fled towards the borders of the Ammon- 
ites. But when Joanan son of Karae and allthe generals of 
the army who were with him heard all the evils which Ismael 
12 had done, they drew out their whole army and marched with 
speed to fight him and came up with him at the great waters 

at Gabaon. And when all the people who were with Ismael 

13 saw Joanan and the generals of the army who were with him, 
15 they turned back to Joanan; but Ismael escaped with eight 
16 men and fled to the children of Ammon. Then Joanan and all 
the generals of the army who were with him took all the rem- 
nant of the people whom they had rescued from Ismael—the 
men fit for war and the women and children and the eunuchs 
whom they brought back from Gabaon and marching with 
speed they encamped at Gaberochama which is near Bethle- 
hem with an intent to go to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans. 
18 For they were afraid of them because Ismael had slain Godo- 
XLII. lias whom the king of Babylon had set over the land. And 
all the generals of the army with Joanan and Azarias son of 
Maasias and all the people small and great came to Jeremias 

2 the prophet and said to him, Have compassion on us, we be- 
seech thee and pray to the Lord thy God for this remnant, 

3 for we are left only few of many as thine eyes see. Now let 
the Lord thy God point out to us the way which we should 
4 go and what we are to do. Whereupon Jeremias said to them, 
I have heard. Behold, I will pray for you to the Lord our God 
according to your words and whatever answer the Lord our 
God shall give that I will declare to you. I will not hide any 

5 thing from you. And they said to Jeremias, The Lord be a 
true and faithful witness between us, that we will act conform- 
ably to the word, whatever it be, which the Lord shall send 


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to us. Whether it be agreeable or disagreeable we will hearken 
to the voice of the Lord our God in respect to that for which 
we send thee to him, that it may be the better for us. We will 
obey the voice of the Lord our God. 

Soafter ten days a word of the Lord came to Jeremias, where- 
upon he sent for Joanan and the generals of the army, and all 
the people small and great, and said to them, Thus said the 
Lord, “If you will abide in this land I will build you up, and 
not pull you down ; and I will plant you, and not root you up; 
for 1 am appeased by the evils which I have done to you. Be 
not afraid of the king of Babylon of whom you are in dread. 
Be not afraid of him, saith the Lord, for Iam with you to de- 
liver you, and to save you out of his hands. And I will shew 
you mercy, and have compassion on you, and bring you back 


3 to your own land. But if in direct disobedience to the voice 


of the Lord you say, ‘‘ We will not abide in this land ; for we 
will go to the land of Egypt, that we may not see war nor 
hear the trumpet’s sound, nor pine for want of bread; and we 
will dwell there.”? Then hear the word of the Lord, Thus said 
the Lord, If you set your face for Egypt, and go there to make © 
your abode ; the sword of which you are afraid shall find you 
in the larid of Egypt ; and the famine which you wish to avoid 
shall follow and overtake you in Egypt, and there you shall 
die. .For all the men even all the strangers who have set their 
faces towards the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall perish 
by the sword and by famine, and not one of them shall escape 
from those evils which I bring upon them. For thus said the 
Lord, As my wrath was poured out on the inhabitants of Je- 
rusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out upon you, if you go 
to Egypt; and you shall be wasted and made slaves, and be 
for an execration and reproach ; and shall never see this land 
agaln.— 

These are the things which th Lord hath λέων» respecting 
you, the remnant of Juda; that you may not go to Egypt.— 
For now you must be sensible that you did evil in your hearts 
when you sent me saying, Pray for us to the Lord, and we 
will act conformably to all that the Lord shall say to thee.— 
For you have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, which 
he hath sent by me to you. Now therefore you shall perish 


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by the sword and by famine, in that place to which you are’ 
determined to go there to make your abode. 


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these words of the Lord to the people, even all the words 
which the Lord had sent him to speak to them, Azarias son 
of Maasias and Joanan son of Karae, and all the men who had 
spoken to Jeremias, said in reply, It is false. The Lord hath 
not sent thee to us, saying, You shall not go to Egypt to dwell 
there. But Baruch son of Nerias setteth thee on against us, 
that thou mayst deliver us into the hands of the Chaldeans to 
be put to death, or banished to Babylon. So Joanan and all the 
generals of the army and all the people hearkened not to the 
voice of the Lord to dwell in the land of Juda. And Joanan 
and all the generals of the army took all the remnant of Juda, 
who had returned to dwell in the land, the men fit for war, 
and the women and the children which were left and the king’s 
daughters, even all the souls which Nabusardan had left with 
Godolias son of Achikam, including Jeremias the prophet, and 
Baruch son of Nerias, and went to Egypt. Because they heark- 
ened not to the voice of the Lord, therefore when they came to 
Taphnas, a word of the Lord came to Jeremias at Taphnas, 
saying, ‘Take thee large stones and bury them at the entrance 
of the gate of Pharao’s house at Taphnas, in the presence of 
the men of Juda and thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord, Be- 
hold I send and I will bring Nabuchodonosar king of Baby- 
Jon and he shall place his throne over these stones which thou 
hast hidden, and pile his arms over them. And when he is 
come he will smite the land of Egypt, sentencing to death 
them who are for death; and to banishment such as are for 
banishment; and to the sword such as are for the sword. And 
he will kindle a fire in the houses of their gods, and burn the 
houses and carry away the gods captives: and he will search 
the land of Egypt, as a shepherd doth his garment, and shall 
go thence in peace. And he will break in pieces the pillars 
of Heliopolis, even those of On, and burn their houses with 
fire. — 


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the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt—for them settled 
at Magdolus, and at Taphnas, .and in the land of Pathoura, 


saying. 
THUS said the Lord the God of Israel, You have seen all 


the evils which I brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities 


of Juda; and behold they are desolate, without inhabitants 
because of their wickedness which they committed to provoke 
me, by going to burn incense to strange gods, which you 
knew not. Though I sent to you my servants the prophets, 
rising early and sending them, saying, Do not commit this 
abominable thing which I hate; yet they hearkened not to 
me, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness so as 
not to burn incense to strange gods. Therefore my wrath 
and mine indignation was poured out and kindled to aflame 
in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they 
became a desolation and a waste, as at this day. Now then, 
thus said the Lord Almighty, Why do ye commit great evils 
against your souls, to cut off every man and woman of you, 
with the infant and suckling out of Juda, so that none of you 
may be left—to provoke me with the works of your hands— 
by burning incense to strange gods in the land of Egypt, 
where you are come to dwell—that you may be cut off and 
become an execration and a reproach, among all the nations 
of the earth? Have you forgotten the evils of your fathers, 
and the evils of the kings of Juda, and the evils of your chiefs, 
and the evils of your wives, which they committed in the 
land of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem? They have not 
indeed even to this day desisted, nor have they adhered to the 
ordinances which I set before their fathers; therefore thus 
said the Lord, Behold I am setting my face to destroy all 
the remnant in Egypt; and they shall fall by the sword and 
by famine and die, both small and great: and they shall be 
for reproach and for destruction and for a curse. For I will 
visit those settled in Egypt as I visited Jerusalem with sword 
and with famine, so that none of this remnant of Juda who 
dwell in Egypt, shall be saved to return to the land of Juda, 
to which they earnestly hope to return, save those only who 
have made their escape thither. 


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Then all the men who knew that their wives burned in- 
cense, and all the women, a great congregation, and all the peo- 
ple who were settled in the land of Egypt at Pathoura answered 
Jeremias, saying, In regard to this word which thou hast 
spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to 
thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall 
proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven 
and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our 
kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets 
of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in hap- 
py circumstances and saw no evils: but soon as we left off 
burning incense to the queen of heaven, we all became fewer 
in number, and were wasted by sword and famine. Now grant 
that we have burned incense to the queen of heaven, and pour- 
ed out libations to her, have we without our husbands, made 
cakes for her or poured out to her libations ? 

In reply to this Jeremias said to all the people, to the men 
in authority, and to the women and all the people who made 
him this answer ; 

This incense which you offered in the cities of Juda and | 


‘in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, and your 


kings and your chiefs, and the people of the land, did not the 
Lord remember ? Did it not come into his. mind so that the 
Lord could no longer forbear on the account of your evil 
doings and on the account of your abominations which you 
committed ? 

So your land was made a ‘desolation and a waste, and for 
acurse as at this day because of the incense, which you of- 
fered, and the sins which you committed against the Lord. 
As you hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, nor walked 
in his statutes and in his law and in his testimonies ; there- 
fore these evils have come upon you. 

Then Jeremias said to the people, particularly to the wo- 
men, Hear a word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord the God 
of Israel, Ye women have spoken with your mouths and with 
your hands confirmed it, saying, We will continue to perform 
the vows which we made to burn incense to the queen of hea- 
ven, and pour out libations to her. You have obstinately δά: 
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26 Therefore heara word of the Lord, all ye of Juda, who are 
settled in the land of Egypt; behold by my great name I have 
sworn said the Lord, my name shall no more be mentioned 

. by the mouth of any Jew in all the land of Egypt, saying, 4s 

27. the Lord liveth. Because I have watched over them, to afflict 
them, and not to do them good, therefore all the Jews who 

are dwelling in the land of Egypt, shall perish by sword and 

28 by famine, until there be an end of them. They indeed who 
have escaped from the sword being few in number, shall re- 
turn to the land of Juda; but the remnant of Juda, who have 
staid in. the land of Egypt to settle there, shall know whose 

' 29 word shall stand. Now this shall be a sign to you, that I will 

30 visit you for evil: thus said the Lord, Behold I deliver up 
Onaphre king of Egypt, into the hands of his enemy, and into 
the hands.of him who seeketh his life, as I delivered Sedekias 
king of Juda into the hands of Nabuchodonosar king of Ba- 
bylon, his oni and who sought his life. 


XLV. XXVIII. The word which Jeremias the prophet spoke 
to Baruch son of Nerias, when he was writing the words in 
the book, from the mouth of Jeremias, in the fourth year of 

: Joakim son of Josias king of Juda. 

2 . THUS said the Lord concerning thee Baruch, because 

3 thie saidst, ““Ah woe is me! for the Lord hath added grief to 
my sorrow: I laid me down with sighing ; no rest did I find.” 

4 Say to him, Thus said the Lord, Behold! them whom 1 built 
up, I am pulling down; them whom I planted, I am rooting 

5 up; and wilt thou seek great things for thyself? Seek them 
not. For behold Iam about to bring evils on all flesh, saith 
the Lord; but I will give thee thy life, for a spoil in every Fat 
whither thou shalt go. 


SV) 1) PORTO EGYPT, respecting the army of Pharao 
Nechao, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates, 
at Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosar king of Babylondefeated | 

in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda. . 

3 ARM with buckler and shields, and advance to battle. 
4, Harness the horses. Horsemen mount! and stand firm in your 
.. helmets. Having put on your breast plates, charge with your 


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rallied not, being hemmed in on all sides, saith the Lord. Let 
not the swift flee, nor the mighty escape to the north. The 
forces at the river Euphrates are weak and have fallen. Who 
is this that will rush forth like the river, and whose stream 
will billow like a flood ὃ The waters of Egypt will rush forth 
like a river: for he said, “I will issue forth and overwhelm 
the earth, and destroy the inhabitants thereof. Mount your 
horses, prepare your chariots: march forth ye warriors of Ethi- 
opia! and ye Libyans well clad in armour! go up also ye 


᾿ς Lydians who bend the bow.” 


(p) This is indeed a day for the Lord our God: a day 
of vengeance, to execute vengeance on his enemies. And the 
sword of the Lord shall devour and be filled; it shall indeed 
be glutted with their blood; for there is a sacrifice for the Lord 
in the land of the north at the river Euphrates. Go up, Ga- 
laad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain 
hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no cure for thee. 
The nations heard thy voice and with thy screams the land 
was filled: because warrior added to warrior were weak, they 
both fell together. ᾿ | 


XXX. The words which the Lord spoke by the ministry of 
Jeremias, that the king of Babylon would come and smite the 
land of Egypt. 

DESPATCH messengers to Magdolus; send also to Mem- 
phis. Say, to arms! and be ready! for a sword hath laid waste 
thy grove. Why did Apis flee from thee? Thy chosen bull, why | 
did he not stand? because the Lord made him weak and thy — 
multitude was weak and fell. Therefore every one said to his 
fellow, Let us arise and return to our people, to our native land, 
from the face of the Grecian sword. Call the name of Pharao 
Nechao king of Egypt, ‘‘Saon-Esbie-Moed.”’ 

As | live, saith the Lord God, like Itaburion among the 


. mountains, and like Charmel which 15 by the sea he shall come. 


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Get ready utensils for thy removal, O well housed daughter 
of Egypt! for Memphis shall be a waste and shall be called, 
‘Alas,’ because in it there are no inhabitants. Egypt was a 


Ch. XLVII. ΧΧΙ.  JEREMIAS. 


beautiful heifer; a detachment from the north came against 
21 her. And the mercenaries, which she had with her, were like Ὁ 
fatted bulls which she had fed. For they turned and fled with 
one consent: they made no stand, because the day of destruc- 
tion came upon them and the time of their visitation. Their 
22 sound is that of a hissing serpent; for they march in dust. With 
23 axes they will come against her; like fellers of timber they will © 
cut down her groves, saith the Lord. Because she would not 
24 be assimilated.—Because she increaseth more than locusts 
which are innumerable; the daughter of Egypt is put to 
shame: she is delivered into the hands of a people from the 
25 north. Behold I will punish her son Ammon in the per- 
son of Pharao, and in the persons of them who trusted in him. 
27 But thou Jacob my servant be not afraid; and thou Israel 
be not dismayed. For behold I will save thee from afar and 
thy seed from their captivity. And Jacob shall return and en- 
joy rest and sleep; and there shall be none to discompose him. 
28 Fear not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, since I am with 
thee. This fearless and luxurious one is delivered up, for I 
will make an end of every nation to which I have driven thee; 
But of thee I will not make an entire end. But 1 will correct 
thee for judgment and not suffer thee to go unpunished. | 


XLVILI. XXXI. Concerning the Philistines, 

ῷ THUSsaiththe Lord, Behold waters are coming from the 
north, and they shall become an overwhelming flood, and shall 
overwhelm the land and the fulness thereof—the cities and them 
who dwelltherein: andthe men shall utter the scream of distress, 
and all the inhabitants of the land, a doleful cry. At the sound 
of his impetuous onset; at the armour of his infantry; at the 
rushing of his chariots; the rumbling of his wheels; fathers | 
looked not back on their children, by reason of the iRettle: 
ness of their hands. 

4 In the day which is coming to ΚΆΜΗ all the Philistines I 

will destroy also Tyre and Sidonand all the residue of theirhelp. 
XXL 13 Behold I am against thee who inhabitest the vale of 

Sor—that plain—them who say, who can terrify us? or who 
14 can come into our habitation? And I will kindle a fire in its 

forests and it shall devour all things around it. 


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XLVII. 4 (p) Because the Lord will utterly destroy the 
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is overthrown and the remnant of Enakim. 

(c) How long wilt thou hew down, O sword of the Lord? 
How long will it be ere thou wilt rest? Return into: thy scab- 
bard, rest and be removed. 

(p) How can it rest when the Lord hath given it a charge 
against Ascalon and the cities on the sea coast and to be lifted 
up against them whom remain? 


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THUS said the Lord, Alas! for Nabo; for it is destroyed. 
Kariathaim is taken. Amath and Agath are put to shame. There 
is no morea cure for Moab; a boasting in Esebon. He hath de- 
vised evils against her. We have cut her off from being a nation 
and she shall go to rest. Behind thee the sword shall stalk on. 
Because there is a sound of screaming from Oronaim—destruc- 
tion and great tribulation, Moab is trodden down. Despatch 
news to Zogora that Aloth is filled with lamentation; she will go 
up weeping by the way of Oronaim. You have heard the scream 
of distress; flee and save your lives; and you shall be like a wild 
ass in the desert. Seeing thou hast trusted in thy fortifications; 
therefore thou shalt be taken; and Chamos shall go into banish- 
ment, and his priests and his chiefs with him; and destruction 


‘shall come on every city, none shall escape. ‘The vale also shall 


be destroyed and the plain wasted as the Lord hath said. Set up 
marks for Moab; for with destruction she shall be destroyed; 
and all her cities shall be for desolation. Whence can she have 


an inhabitant? He is cursed who doth the work of the Lord 


négligently, withholding his sword from blood. 

Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; 
he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into ba- 
nishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in 


him and his flavour is not lost: Therefore behold the days are 


coming saith the Lord, when I will send decanters and they 


‘shall decant him; and they shall break his vessels and cut to 


pieces his drinking horns; and Moab shall be put to shame for 
Chamos, as the house of Israel were for Baithel their confi- 
dence. How can ye who have put confidence in them, say, 


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“We are strong, and a man mighty for feats of war.” Moab 
is destroyed with his cities; and his chosen men are gone down 
to slaughter. The day of Moab is near at hand, and with speed 
his calamity is approaching. Shake your heads for him, all ye 
around him; pronounce his name, all of you, say, How the 
beautiful sceptre is broken! the sceptre of majesty! Come 
down from glory and sit low in mire. Diabon shall be trampled 
down because Moab is destroyed. The demolisher of thy 
strong hold is come up against thee. Stand by the way side 
and take a view, O inhabitant of Aroer! ask him who is fleeing 
and making escape, and say, What is the news? Moab is put 
to shame; for-he is utterly discomfited. Raise the mournful 
cry and scream; proclaim in Arnon, that Moab is destroyed. 
Judgment is indeed coming on the land of Misor, upon Cha- 
lon, and Rephas, and Mophas, and on Daibon, and on Nabo, 
and on the house of Daithlathaim, and on Kariathaim, and on — 
the house of Gaimol, and on the house of Maon, and on Kari- 
oth, and on Bosor, and on all the cities of Moab far and near. 
The horn of Moab is hacked to pieces, and his prowess is 
broken. Make himdrunk. Because he magnified himself against 
the Lord, he will therefore clap with his hand at Moab that 
he may be an object of derision; for was not Israel an object of 
mirth to thee and found among thy stolen goods, because thou 
didst fight against him? The inhabitants of Moab have left 
their cities and made their abode among rocks. They were 
like pigeons nestling in rocks at the mouth of a cave. 

(p) Ihave heard indeed. of the pride of Moab: he was 
very proud—and of his haughtiness; his heart was elated. 

(J) But as for me I know his works: is not this his de- 
sert? Hath he not acted thus? Therefore raise on all sides the 
mournful cry for Moab; scream for the men of Keiradas-auch- 
mou. | 
(p) With the wailing of Jazer I will wail for thee, O vine 
of Aserema. Thy branches extended to the sea; they reached 
to the cities of Jazer. When thy fruit was ripe; destruction 


9. came upon thy grape gatherers. Joy and gladness were snatch- 


ed from Moab, when the vine was in thy lakes. In the morn- 
ing there was no treading, and in the evening no shouts of © 
joy. At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their 


Ch. XLIX. JEREMIAS. 


cities from Zogar to Oronaim uttered their voice, and spread 
the news with an alarm. | 
(J) Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up; 

35. therefore I will destroy Moab, saith the Lord, when he is go- 
ing up to the altar and burning incense to his gods. 

36 (p) For this let the heart of Moab groan like drone 
pipes. Let my heart sound like a drone for the men of rie 
radas. | 
τς (J) Because all that every man had procured i is utterly 

37 desbitnicds let them every where shave the whole head; and 
let the whole beard be shaven and all hands gashed; and let 

38 there be sackcloth on every loin, and on all the house tops of 
Moab and in every street: for I have broken him, saith the 

39 Lord, like a vessel that is useless. How did he deprecate! 
How did Moab turn his .back! Moab was ashamed and be- 

40 came a subject of laughter and derision to all around. For 
thus said the Lord, Karioth is taken and the strong holds are 

41 surprised; and Moab shall be destroyed from being a multi-. 

42 tude. Because he magnified himself against the Lord, a trap, 

43. ascare-net and a pit are prepared for thee, O inhabitant of 

44, Moab! He who fleeth from the scare-net shall fall into the pit; 
and he who getteth up out. of the pit shall be caught in the 
trap. For I will bring these visage on Moab in the year of their 

. Visitation. 


XLIX. XXXII. Respecting the children of Ammon. 
THUS said the Lord, Hath Israel no sons? or have they 
no heir? Why then hath Melchol taken possession of Galaad? 
Shall his people dwell in their cities? For this cause behold the 

2 days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will cause the tumult 
of battles against Rabbath to be heard; and they shall be for 
desolation.and destruction; and her altars shall be consumed 
with fire; and Israel shall assume his government. 

3 Raise the mournful cry, O Esebon, for Gai is destroyed. 
Scream, ye daughters of Rabbath; gird on sackcloth and 
mourn; for Melchol shall go into banishment and his priests 

- 4 and his chiefs with him. What! are you exulting with joy in 
the.vales of Enakim? ΟἹ daughter of wantonness who trustest 
in thy treasures—who sayest, Who shallcome against me? 


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every neighbour around thee: and you shall be scattered. every 
one before it ; and there shall be none to collect you. 


XXXIV. Respecting Idumea. 

THUS said the Lord, There is no more any wisdom in 
Thaiman. Counsel is perished from the prudent. Wisdom is 
fled from them. Their place hath been led into error. 

(p) O inhabitants of Daidan! retire to a deep settlement 
for he hath brought on calamities. 

(J) I brought them on him at the time when I visited him. 
Because grape gatherers are come, who will not leave thee a 
oleaning. Like thieves by nightthey will lay to their hands. Be- 
cause I plundered Esau and discovered their hidden stores; 
They could not be concealed, they were destroyed. 

(p) By means of the hand of his brother my neighbour, 
there is. indeed no place for thine orphan to be left that it may 
live. 

(J) But I will cause it to live. In me the widows have 
trusted. Because they (said the Lord) who had a law not to 
drink the cup, drank it; thou therefore shalt not escape un- 
punished. For by myself I have sworn saith the Lord, thou 
shalt be a desolation and a reproach and a curse in this coun- 
try and all its cities shall be perpetual wastes. | 

(p) Ihave heard a report from the Lord. He hath sent 
messengers to the nations, [saying] assemble and comeagainst 
her; arise for battle. 

(J) Ihave made thee little among the nations, very con- 
temptible among men. Thine insolency hath entrapped ἔπος; 
the wantonness of thy heart destroyed the holes of rocks. It 
took possession of a strong, lofty mountain. Because like an 
eagle thou hast built thy nest high; thence I will pull thee 
down: and Idumea shall be a desolation. Every passenger 
shall express for it the sound of pity. As in the overthrow of 
Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, said the 
Lord Almighty, no man shall abide there, nor shalla son of 
man dwell there. Behold they shall be like the lion which 


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Ch. XLIX. JEREMIAS. 


speedily drive them from that place. Therefore set ye chosen 
warriors against it. 

20 . Because who is like me? Or who can withstand me? And 
who is the shepherd who can stand before me? Therefore hear 
the counsel of the Lord which he hath taken against Idumea, 
and the determination he hath come to against the inhabitants 
of Thaiman: Let all but the tenderest of the flock be destroyed; 
let all but a resting place for them be made a desolation. 

2] (p) At the sound of their fall the earth trembled, so that 

22 the roaring of the sea was not heard. Behold he will take a 
view like an eagle, and expand his wings against her fortifica- 
tions; and the heart of the valiant men of Idumea shall be on 
that day like the heart of a woman in travail. 


XXXV. Respecting Damascus. 

EMATH and Arphath are overwhelmed in shame. Be- 
cause they heard bad news they were confounded; they boiled 
24 with rage; they cannot take rest. Damascus is enervated. She 
25 turned to flee: terror seized her. How can it be otherwise? 
26 She forsook my city. Did they regard a single village? There- 
fore thy young men shall fall in thy streets; and all thy valiant 
27 warriors shall fall, saith the Lord. And I will kindle a fire in 
the wall of Damascus and it shall consume the palaces of Son 

of Ader. 


XXXVI. Respecting Kedar the queen of the court, which 
Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon smote. 

THUS said the Lord ; arise and go up against Kedar ; and 

29 glut the sons of Kedem. Let them seize their tents and their 

flocks : let them take for themselves their clothing, all their 

utensils and their camels: and call ye for destruction against 

30 allthem around. Flee, retire very deep to a settlement, O in- 

habitants at the court. For against you the king of Babylon 

hath taken counsel, and hath come to a determination, saying, 

31 ‘* Arise and go up against a wealthy nation dwelling at ease 

who have neither gates nor bars nor bolts—who dwell alone. 

32 Let their camels be for a prey and the multitude of their 

cattle for slaughter.” For I will winnow with every wind 

‘them who have their foreheads shaven and from all sides I 
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33 will bring destruction on them, saith the Lord. And the court 
shall be a lodging place for ostriches and a waste forever. No 
man shall abide there, nor shall a son of man there make his 
dwelling. | 


XXXVI. In the beginning of the reign of king Sedekias 
came this word concerning Ailam. 

THUS saith the Lord, The bow of Ailam is broken, the , 

36 instrument of his dominion. And I will bring upon Ailam four 

winds from the four quarters of heaven and I will scatter them 

with these winds ; so that there shall not be a nation to which 

37 the outcasts of Ailam shall not come. And I will terrify them 

before their enemies who seek their lives; and bring against 

them according to the fury of my wrath, and send against 

38 them my sword, until it utterly consume them. And I will set 

my throne in Ailam and drive thence kings and nobles. But it 

shall come to pass at the last of these days I will bring back 
the captivity of Ailam, ‘saith the Lord. 


L. XXXVI. 4 word of the Lord which he spake against 
Babylon. 

PROCLAIM among the nations, publish and conceal 
not—say, Babylon is taken; Bel is confounded; the fear- 
less, the luxurious Mairodach is delivered up. For a nation is 
gone up against her from the north, which will make her land 
a desolation, so that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor 
4 beast. In those days, even at that time, shall come up the chil- 

dren of Israel, they and the children of Juda together: walk- 
ing slow and weeping they will march on seeking the Lord 
5 their God. They will ask the way to Zion; for thitherward 
they will set their face; and they will come and flee to the Lord 
their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten. 


6 My people have been lost sheep. ‘Their shepherds caused 
them to stray. On the mountains they caused them to wander. 
7 From mountain to hill they roamed. They forgot their place 
of rest. All that found them devoured them. Their enemies 
said, ‘‘Let us not spare them because they sinned against the 
8 Lord.”? He who gathered their fathers hath a pasture of right: 
eousness: remove out of Babylon and from the country of the 
9 Chaldeans, and go out and be like dragons before sheep. For 


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lo! I am raising up against Babylon assemblies of nations 
from the north; and they shall be drawn up in array against 
her. Thence one shall be taken like the dart of a skilful war- 

10 rior which shall not rebound in vain. So Chaldea shall be for 

11 a prey. All that plunder it shall be satisfied. Because you re- 
joiced and triumphed when you were plundering my heritage 
—because you frisked about like calves m a pasture, and 

12 brandished your horns like bulls; your mother shall be great- 
ly ashamed: she who brought you forth for prosperity shall 
be confounded. Being the hindmost of nations, a desert be- 
cause of the wrath of the Lord, she shall not be inhabited; but 

13 shall be entirely a desolation. Sorrow will cover the coun- 
tenance of all who travel through Babylon; and at all their ca- 

14 lamity they will express pity. Set yourselves in array all 
around against Babylon. All ye who bend the bow shoot at 

15 her: spare not your arrows, you must needs subdue her. Her 
hands are weakened; her bulwarks have fallen, and her wall is 
undermined. Because it is a vengeance from the Lord; exe- 

16. cute vengeance on her. As she hath done, do ye to her. De- 
stroy utterly the seed of Babylon, him who handleth the sickle 
m harvest. Let them return from the face of the Grecian 
sword, every one to his own people; and let every one flee to 
his own land. 

17 Israel was a wandering sheep. Lions scared him away. The 
first who devoured him was the king of Assur, and this last, the 

18 king of Babylon gnawed his bones. Therefore thus saith the . 
Lord, Behold I will execute vengeance on the king of Babylon 

19 and his land as lexecuted vengeance on the king of Assyria. And I 
will bring back Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel, 
and on mount Ephraim, and on Galaad; and his soul shall be 

20 satisfied. In those days and at that time, search shall be made 
for the iniquity of Israel; but none shall remain: and for the 
sins of Juda; but none shall be —— For I will be merciful 
to them who are left. 

21 With respect to this land, saith the Lord. Go up with bit- 
terness against it and against them who dwell in it; take ven- 
geance, O sword, and destroy utterly; saith the ware and do 
according to all that I command thee. 

22 A sound of battle and great distress in the land of the 

23 Chaldeans! How the hammer of the whole earth is broken 


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and dashed to pieces! How Babylon is become a desolation 


24 among the nations! They will come upon thee and thou shalt 


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not know—like Babylon itself and thou shalt be taken. Thou 
art found out and taken, because thou didst set thyself against 
the Lord. 

~The Lord hath opened his arsenal and brought out the in- 
struments of his wrath; because the Lord God hath a work 
to perform in the land of the Chaldeans. 

Because her time is come; open ye her treasuries, search 
her like a cave; and destroy her utterly. Let not a remnant 
of her be left. Lay waste all her fruits and let them go down 
to destruction. | 

(p) Alas for them; for their day is come and the time of 
their visitation! Hark! a sound of men fleeing and escaping 
out of the land of Babylon to inform Sion of the vengeance of 
the Lord our God. 

(J) Issue these orders to many against Babylon—to every 
one bending a bow—‘‘Encamp against her round about; let 
none escape out of her.” Render to her according to her works 
—according to all that she hath done, do ye to her. Because she 
set herself against the Lord, the holy God of Israel, therefore 
her young men shall fall in her streets and all her mighty war- 
riors shall be laid low, saith the Lord. 

Behold I am against thee, thou essence of haughtiness, 
saith the Lord. Because thy day is come and the time of thy 
punishment; therefore thy haughtiness shall be abated. and fall, 
and none shall continue to support it. For I will kindle a fire 
in her forest, which shall devour all around her. 

Thus saith the Lord, The children of Israel and the chil- 
dren of Juda have both been oppressed; all who captivated 
them tyrannised over them. 

Because they refused to let them go; therefore their Re- 
deemer—the Mighty One, whose name is The Lord Almighty 
will plead their cause with their adversaries. In order that he 
may remove this land out of the way he will sharpen for the 
inhabitants of Babylon a sword against the Chaldeans and 
against the inhabitants of Babylon; and against her grandees 
and against her counsellors—a sword against her warriors and 
they shall be destroyed; a sword against their horses and 
against their chariots—a sword against their warriors and 


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the mixed multitude in the midst of her and they shall be like 
women—a sword against her treasures; and they shall be 
rifled; against them who are on her waters and they shall be 
exposed to shame. 

Because it isa land of the graven images and it was in 
these islands where they boasted therefore imageries shall 
dwell in those islands and in her shall dwell the daugh- 
ters of Sirens and she shall never more be inhabited. As God 
overthrew Sodom and Gomorra and the neighbouring cities, 
said the Lord, no man shall dwell there, nor shalla son of man 
make his abode there. Behold a people is coming from the — 
north, evena mighty nation, and many kings shall be roused up 
from the extremity of the earth handling the bow and sword. 


_ They are haughty and will shew no mercy: their voice will roar 


like the sea. On horses they will come prancing, in array like 
fire, for battle against thee, O daughter of Babylon. The king 
of Babylon heard the report of them and his hands were en- 
feebled; anguish seized him like the pangs of a woman in tra- 
vail. Behold he will be like the lion which must go up from the 
swelling of Jordan to Gaitham, for I will speedily drive men 
from her, and set every youth against her: for who is like me ~ 
and who can withstand me? And who is the shepherd whocan 
stand before me? Therefore hear the counsel which the Lord 
hath taken against Babylon; and the determination he is come 
to against the Chaldean inhabitants, let all but the lambs of 


the flock be destroyed; let all but a pasture for them be made 


a desolation. For at the sound of the capture of Babylon the 
earth shall be shaken, and a scream shall be heard among the 
nations. 

_ Thus said the Lord. Behold against Babylon and against 
the Chaldean inhabitants I am raising up a hot destroying wind. 
And against Babylon I will send scorners who will treat her 
with scorn and waste her land. Woe shall surround Babylon on 
all sides on the day of her affliction. Let him, who bendeth the 
bow, bend it; and him, who hath armour put it on; shew no 
compassion to her youths, and destroy utterly all her host. And 
let the wounded fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and those 
who are pierced through, fall in her streets. 

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God, the Lord Almighty, on account of their land being filled 
with iniquity by reason of the sanctuaries of Israel; flee out of 
Babylon and save every one his life and be not involved in her 
iniquity. For the time of her punishment is come from the 
Lord, and he is rendering to her a recompence. Babylon was 
a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, furnishing a plentiful 
draught to all the nations. Of her wine the nations drank, 
therefore they reeled. But Babylon is suddenly fallen and bro- 
ken. Utter a lamentation for her. Get balm for her deadly 
wound; perhaps she may be cured. 

(c) We have administered medicines to Babylon, but 
she is not healed. Let us leave her and depart every one to 
his own land: for her judgment hath reached to heaven and ὁ 
mounted up to the stars. The Lord hath published his decree. 
Come let us proclaim in Sion the works of the Lord our God. 

(p) Prepare the arrows. Fill the quivers. The Lord hath 
stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes. For his wrath 
is against Babylon to destroy her utterly. For it is the ven- 
geance of the Lord—the avengement of his people. On the 
walls of Babylon erect a standard; set the watch; have arms 
ready. Because the Lord hath undertaken; therefore he will 
accomplish what he hath spoken against the inhabitants of Ba- 
bylon—against them who dwell on many waters, and against 
the multitude of her treasures. Thine end is come, it is come 
indeed inte thy bowels: for the Lord hath sworn by his arm, 
“T will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they who go 
down shall utter a sound against thee.” 

(c) The Lord is he who made the earth by his power, 
who fitted up the world by his wisdom. By his understanding 
he stretched out the heaven. At his voice there was in heaven 
a sound of water, and he brought up clouds from the extremi- 
ty of the earth. He made the lightning for rain and brought 
out light from his treasuries.. Every man by knowledge be- 
came stupefied, every meltcr of gold was put to shame for his 
graven images; for their molten images were falsehoods, there. 
is no breath in them. They are works of vanity and objects οἵ. 
derision. In the time of their visitation they shall perish. The 
portion of Jacob is not such as these, for he who formed alk 
things is his inheritance: his name is the Lord. 


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(J) Thou art dispersing for me implements of war, but 
in thee I will disperse nations and remove kings out of thee; 
and in thee I will disperse the horse and his rider; and in thee 
I will disperse chariots and charioteers; and in thee I will dis- 
perse the youth and the virgin; and in thee I will disperse the 
husband and the wife; and in thee I will disperse the shepherd 
and the flock; and in thee I will disperse the husbandman and 
his husbandry; and in thee I will disperse the generals and 
leaders of armies, and retribute to Babylon and all the Chal- 
dean inhabitants all the evils which they have done to Sion in 
your sight, saith the Lord. Behold I am against thee, O cor- 
rupted mountain which corruptest the whole earth, and I will’ 
stretch out my hand against thee and roll thee down on rocks; 
and I will make thee like a mountain which hath been burned 
to ashes, so that they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner 
nor a stone for a foundation. For thou shalt be a desolation for 
ever, saith the Lord. Erect a standard in the land. Sound a 
trumpet among the nations. Prepare the nations against her, 
Issue orders against her. Carry them, O kings, from me even 
to the Achanazeans. Erect towers against her. Bring up against 
her, cavalry like a multitude of locusts. Bring up against her 
nations, the king of the Medes and of the whole earth—his 
generals and all the leaders of his army. 

(p) The earth was’ in commotion and oppressed with 
toil, because the determination of the Lord against Baby- 
lon had roused it, to make the land of Babylon a desolation 
and uninhabitable. ‘The warriors of Babylon declined to 
fight. They will sit still there during a siege. Their migh- 
ty power is broken. They are become like women. Her 
habitations are burned with fire. Her bars are broken. Cou: 
rier will run to meet courier and messenger to meet mes- 
senger to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken—that 
the passages one after another are forced—that the barriers 
are burned with fire and his warriors are fleeing. For thus said 
the Lord, the houses of the king of Babylon shall be threshed 
like a floor full of ripe grain. Yet a little while and her harvest 
will come. . 5 

(c) She devoured me; she chewed me to picces: thick 
darkness overwhelmed me. Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon 


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Swallowed me down; like a dragon he filled his belly with my 


_ dainties. They have cast me up. 


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(p) Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my 


_ miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood 


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be upon the Chaldean inhabitants! 

(J) For this cause, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will 
judge thine adversary and avenge thy cause; and I will drain 
off her sea and make her fountain dry, and Babylon shall be a 
desolation and shall not be inhabited. Because they roused to- 
gether like lions and like lions’ whelps; in their heat I will 
give them a draught and make them drunk; that they may be 
stupefied and sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake, saith 
the Lord. 

(p) Down, down with them, like lambs to slaughter and 
like rams and he goats. How the boast of the whole earth 
is hunted and taken! how Babylon has become a desolation 
among the nations! The sea came up against Babylon with its 
roaring waves, and she is overwhelmed. Her cities are become 
like a land without water, an untrodden desert. Not an indivi- 
dual can dwell there: nor can a son of man lodge in her. 

(J) Iwill indeed punish Babylon and bring forth out of 
her mouth what she hath swallowed. And the nations shall no 
more be gathered together to her; nor shall the victims of the 
whole earth fall by Babylon. Away from her country, ye who 
have escaped; and tarry not; ye who are far off, remember the 
Lord; and let Jerusalem recur to your mind. 

-(c) We are ashamed; because we have heard our re- 
proach, disgrace hath covered our face; strangers have enter- 
ed our sanctuaries—into the house of the Lord. 

(J) Therefore behold the days are coming, saith the 
Lord, when 1 willexecute vengeance on her graven images, 
and among all them her wounded shall fall in that land. For 
though Babylon should mount up to heaven—though she forti- 
fy her walls with all her might, from me shall come forth those 
who shall destroy her, saith the Lord. 

(p) A sound of screaming in Babylon! and great destruc- 
tion in the land of the Chaldeans! For the Lord hath utterly 
destroyed Babylon, and put an end to her din, which was like 
the sound of great waters. Her din he hath given up to destruc- 


Ch. Lil. JEREMIAS. 


56 tion. For misery is come upon Babylon. Her warriors are ta- 
ken. Their bow is confounded; for God rendereth them re- 
tribution. 

(J) The Lord rendereth them retribution; and he will 
make utterly drunk her leaders and her wise men and her 
generals, saith the king whose name is The Lord Almighty. 

58 Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad; 
It shall be totally demolished and her lofty gates shall be burn. 
ed with fire; and the peoples shall not labour in vain, though 
the nations may at first fail. 


59 THE word which the Lord commanded Jeremias the pro- 
phet to deliver to Saraias son of Nerias son of Maasias when 
he was going from Sedekias king of Juda to Babylon in the 
fourth year of his reign. Now Saraias had the charge of the hoe 
mage gifts. | 

60 When Jeremias had written in a book all the evils which 

61 were tocome upon Babylon, even all the words above written 

against Babylon, Jeremias said to Saraias; When thou art come 

to Babylon and shalt have seen and read all these words, 
then thou shalt say, “Ὁ Lord, Lord, thou hast spoken against 
this place, that thou wilt destroy it utterly, so that none shall 
dwell therein, neither man nor beast; for it shall be a desola- 

63 tion forever.” And when thou hast finished reading the book, 
then thou shalt tye a stone to it and throw it into the midst of 
the Euphrates, and say, “So shall Babylon sik and rise no 
more by reason of the evils which 1 bring upon it. 


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LIT. XXXIX. SEDEKIAS was twenty one years old when he 
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and 

4 his mother’s name was Ameital. She was a daughter of Jere- 
mias of Lobena. And it came to pass in the ninth year of his 
reign in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, Nabucho- 
donosar king of Babylon, came with his whole army against 
Jerusalem, and they besieged it and built a wall around it of 
square stones, and the city was besieged until the eleventh 

6 year of king Sedekias. On the ninth day of the — month there 
was a grievous famine in the city and there was no bread for 

7 the people of the land. When a breach was made into the city, 

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all the men who were warriors went out by night by the way 
of the gate between the outer and the inner wall, which was 
along the king’s garden, (though the Chaldeans were all around 
the city;) and took the road to Araba. And the army of the 


Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him on the borders 


of Jericho. And all his servants being dispersed from him, they 
took the king and carried him to the king of Babylon at Deb- 
latha, who passed sentence on him. And the king of Babylon 
slew the sons of Sedekias before his eyes. He slew also all the 
chiefs of Juda at Deblatha. Then he put out the eyes of Sede- - 
kias and bound him with chains. And the king of Babylon led 
him to Babylon and committed him to the slave prison where . 
he continued till the day of his death. — 

And on the fifth month on the tenth of the month Nabou- 


_zardan the chief cook, who stood in the presence of the king 


of Babylon, came to Jerusalem and burned the house of the 
Lord and the king’s house. He burned also with fire all the 
public buildings of the city and every stately house. And the 
army of the Chaldeans which was with the chief cook demo- 
lished all the wall of Jerusalem round about. But the chief cook 


left the remains of the people for vine dressers and husband- 


men. 
The Chaldeans also broke to pieces the pillars of brass 


' which were in the house of the Lord and the bases and the * 


sea of brass which was in the house of the Lord, and took the 
brass and carried it to Babylon with the crown, and the cups 
and the flesh forks and all the utensils of brass with which they 
sacrificed; and the Apphoths and the Masmaroths and the oil 
vessels and the candlesticks and the censers and the cups: 
those which were of gold, or gilded, and those which were of 
silver, or plated, the chief cook took. As for the two pillars and 
the sea and the twelve oxen of brass under the sea, which 


_ king Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, there was 


no weighing the brass thereof. ‘Fhe height of each of the pil- 
lars was thirty five cubits and a fillet of twelve cubits encir- 
cled it, the thickness of which was four fingers all around. 
And there was a chapiter of brass on each of them of the height 
of five cubits witha ball on the top of each and a piece of net 
work and pomegranates around on each chapiter; all of brass; 


Ch. LII. JEREMIAS. 


23 eight pomegranates to a cubit for the twelve cubits. So that 
there were ninety six pomegranates on the sides and all the po- 
megranates on the net work round about were one hundred. 

24 And the chief cook took the chief priest, and the priest 

25 who was second to him, and the three who guarded the way; 
and a eunuch who was over the men of war, and seven men 
of renown who attended in the king’s presence, who were 
found in the city, and the scribe of the armies, who mustered 
the people of the land ; and sixty chief men, of the people of 

26 the country, who were found in the city. These Nabuzardan 
the chief cook, took and brought to the king of Babylon at 

27 Deblatha. And the king of Babylon slew them at Deblatha 
in the land of Aimath. 

81 And it came to pass in the thirty seventh year of the cap- 
tivity of Jechonias king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the 
twenty fourth of the month, Oulaimadachar king of Babylon, 
in the first year of his reign, took and raised up the head of 
Jechonias king of Juda, and caused him to be shaven and re- 
leased him from the prison, in which he was confined, and 

32 spoke kindly to him and set his seat above the kings, who 

33 were with him in Babylon. And changed his prison dress, and 
caused him to eat in his presence, all the days of his life. 

94. And he had a portion continually given to him, day by , 
day, from the king of Babylon, to the day of his death. - 


THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS. 


ΠῚ After Israel was carried into captivity, and Jerusalem was 
laid waste ; Jeremias sat down and wept, and sung this song 
of woe over Jerusalem, and said. 

HOW solitary sitteth the city which was full of people ! ! 
she who was abundant among nations is become like a wi- 
dow! the empress of provinces is become tributary ! 

2 She wept sore by night and her tears are on her cheeks : 
and of all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her 
friends dealt sie np ocean with her. They became her ene- 

᾿ -mies.— 

5. Judea is forced to emigrate. On account of her humilia- 

- tion and because of her great servitude, she sat down among 


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the nations; she found no rest. All her persecutors found her 
among them who were afflicting her. 

4 The highways of Sion mourn; because none attend her 
festivals. All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan bitterly. 
Her virgins are carried away ; and she is by herself in bit- 
terness.— Υ̓ 

δ. They who afflict her are become her head; and her ene- 
mies prosper. Because the Lord hath humbled her for the 
multitude of her transgressions ; her children are gone into 
captivity before the oppressor. 

6 From the daughter of Sion all her comeliness is taken 
away. Her chiefs were like rams which could find no pasture; 
and they came without strength in view of the pursuer.  ~ 

7 In the days of her humilation and rejection, Jerusalem re- 
membered all the good things which she had in days of old, 
When her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and 
there was none to help her ; her enemies seeing this, laughed 
at her festivals held in commemoration of her settlement. 

8 Jerusalem sinned grievously, therefore she became unstable 
as a wave. By all that honoured her she hath been humbled, 
for they saw her nakedness, while she sighing turned away 
her face. 

9 Her uncleanness was before her feet. She was insensible 
to her extreme distress. He hath indeed lowered her haugh- 
tiness; there is none who comforteth her. O Lord, behold my 

_ affliction because the enemy is magnified. 

10  Onall the objects of her desire the oppressor hath laid 
his hand; for into her sanctuary, she saw nations. entering, 
concerning whom thou hast commanded that they alioyid not 
come into thy congregation. 

11: All her people were sighing deeply, seeking sire They 
gave up the objects of her desire, for meat to preserve life. 
Look down, O Lord, and see how she is dishonoured. 

1 (s) Ho! all ye who travel the way turn and see! is there 
any sorrow like this of mine, which he hath denounced against 
me. The Lord hath humbled me in the day of his fierce in- 
dignation. 

Re - Οσσ συῷτᾺ»νο.--πτεοοσοοοο΄΄ --- 


(5) Sion, or the city of Jerusalem. 


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13 From his loftiness he hath sent a fire; he brought it in 
among my bones. He hath spread a net for my feet and turn- 
ed me backwards. He hath made me desolate and full of sor- 
row, all the live long day. 

14 He hath kept a watch on my transgressions. They are 
wreathed round my hands. They have reached up to my neck. 
My strength is enfeebled, For into my hands the Lord hath 
sent pains. ἢ cannot stand. 

15 From amidst me the Lord hath removed all my mighty 
men. He hath brought upon me the time for crushing my 
chosen bands. The Lord trod out a vat for the virgin daugh- 

16 terof Juda. For these things I mourn. Mine eye hath flowed 
with water, because my comforter, he who is the supporter 
of my life, is far removed from me. My children are vanished 
because the enemy hath prevailed. 

17 (p) Sion stretched forth her hand ; there is none to com- 
fort her. The Lord gave acommand respecting Jacob; around 
him are they who afflict him. Jerusalem became among them, 
like one set apart as unclean. 

18 (5) The Lord is righteous ; for against his express com- 
mandment I rebelled. Hear I beseech you all ye peoples and 
behold my sorrow ! my virgins and my young men are gone 
into captivity. 

19 I called on my lovers; but they with false excuses deceiv- 
ed me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, because 
they sought food to support their lives, but found none. 

20 Look, O Lord! because of my distress my bowels are 
troubled; and my heart within me is distracted, because I 
have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword, and at home 
death have bereaved me of children. | 

21 ~ Hear, I beseech thee! because I groan; there is none to 
comfort me. All mine enemies heard of my calamities, and 
rejoiced at what thou hast done. Thou hast brought on a day: 

22 thou hast proclaimed a time. They were like me, let all their 
wickedness come before thee. Make search for them as they 
have made search for all my transgressions, For my groans 
are many, and my heart is afflicted with grief. : 


II. OH ! how the Lord hath in his wrath covered with dark- 


Ch. II. LAMENTATIONS. 


ness the daughter of Sion! he hath cast down, from heaven, 
upon the earth, the glory of Israel; and hath not remember- 
ed his own footstool. 

2 In the day of his indignation the Lord overwhelmed and 
did not spare ; in his wrath he destroyed all the comeliness of 
Jacob : he levelled to the ground the strong holds of the daugh- 
ter of Juda. He brought contempt on her king, and her chiefs. 

3 In his fierce anger he broke the whole horn of Israel: he 
turned back his right hand from before his enemy : he kind- 
led in Jacob a flaming fire, which devoured all around. 

4 He bent his bow like an opposing enemy—like an adversa- 
ry he strengthened his right hand and slew all the desires of 
mine eyes. In the tent of the daughter of Sion he poured out 
his wrath like fire. 

5 The Lord became like an enemy. He overwhelmed Israel. 
He sunk her palaces. He destroyed his own munitions, and 
multiplied on the daughter of Juda humiliation on humiliation. 

6 —_ He laid open like a vineyard his own dwelling; he marred 
his own festivals. The Lord forgot the festivals and sabbaths 
which he had established in Sion, and by the rebuke of his an- 
ger vexed king and priest and chief. 

7 ‘The Lord hath cast off his altar; he hath shaken off his 
sanctuary. With the hand of an enemy he hath demolished 
the wall of her palaces. They uttered a shout in the house of 
the Lord as on the day of a festival. 

8 He turned back to destroy the wall of the daughter of Si- 
on; he stretched out a measuring line: he withdrew not his 
hand from destruction; so the outer wall mourned and the in- 
ner wall languished with it. 

9 Her gates were dashed to the ground: he destroyed and 

_ broke to pieces her bars, her king and her chiefs among the 
nations. Law is no more; and her prophets saw not a vision 
from the Lord. | 

10 The elders of the daughter of Sion sat on the ground. 
They were silent. They heaped dust on their heads; they gird- 

_ ed themselves with sackcloth. He humbled to the ground the | 
virgin princesses in Jerusalem. : 

11 Mine eyes failed with tears; my heart was astounded. My 
‘glory was poured on the ground for the distress of the daugh- 


Ch. II. LAMENTATIONS. 


ter of my people when the infant: and suckling expired in the 
streets of the city. 

12 To their mothers they said, ‘‘ Where is corn and wine,” 
when they were fainting like wounded men in the streets of 
the city——when they were pouring out their souls in their mo- 
thers’ bosom. 

13 What shall I take to witness for thee? Or to what shall I 

liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who can save and com- 
fort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? Because thy cup of ruin 
hath oad large, who can heal thee? 

1{ Thy prophets saw vanities and follies for thee; they made 
no revelations against thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity, 

_ but saw for thee false burdens and expellings. 

15 All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they ex- 
pressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daugh- 
ter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of 
the whole earth ! 

16 Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they 
hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed 
her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; 
we have seen it. ; 

Li, The Lord hath done what he purposed. He hath executed 

his decree, what he enjoined in days of old. He hath destroy- 

ed and hath not spared. He hath caused an enemy to rejoice 
over thee. He hath exalted the horn of thine oppressor. Their 
heart cried to the Lord. O! walls of Sion cause tears to flow 
down like a torrent day and night. Give thyself no rest; let not - 

19 the daughter of thine eyes be silent. Arise, chant praise in the 
night at setting thy watch. Pour out thy heart like water before 
the Lord; lift up thy hands to him for the life of thine infants, 
who are perishing with hunger at the head of every street. 

20 Look, O Lord, and see. For whom hast thou caused such 
a search to be made? Shall women eat the fruit of their womb! 
The cook hath made search! Shall infants at the breast be 
butchered? Wilt thou slay in the sanctuary of the Lord, priest 
and prophet? 

21 On the high way lie the youth and the elder. My virgins 
and my young men are gone into captivity; with sword and 
with famine thou hast slain; in the day of thine anger thou 
hast slaughtered and hast not spared. 


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Ch. Il. LAMENTATIONS. 


22 He called my sojourners from all around toa solemn festi- 
val, so that in the day of the indignation of the Lord none 
escaped or were left. As I excelled in power so have I multi- 
plied all mine enemies. eee 

. 1η. I AM a man who have seen affliction by the rod of his 
2 wrath against me. He hath seized me and dragged me into 
8. darkness and there is no light. But still he turned his hand 

against me all the day long. “nde Bg 
4 He hath made my flesh and my skin old; he hath broken 
5 my bones. He built up against me and encompassed my head 
6 and afflicted it with pain : in dark mansions he placed me like 
the dead of old. ‘ 
7 He built up against me so that I cannot get out. He made 
8 my chain heavy. Though I scream and cry, he shut out my 
9 prayer. He walled up my ways; he blocked up my paths; he 
terrified me. 

10 He wasas a bear lying in wait; to me he was like a lion in 

11 secret coverts. He pursued me when I fled and stopped me. 

12 He removed me quite out of sight. He bent his bow and set 

13 me up as a mark for his arrow. He poured into my reins the 
darts of his quiver. 

14 I became a subject of laughter to all my people—their 

15 song all the day long. He glutted me with wormwood; he 
gave me a large draught of gall, and broke my teeth with 

16 gravel. He drenched me with ashes. He removed my soul far 

17 from peace. I forgot prosperity; so my strength was destroy- 

18 ed and the hope which I had from the Lord. I recollected be- 

19 cause of mine affliction. When by reason of persecution, my 

20 bitterness and gall shall be remembered; then on myself will 

21 my soul meditate. I will lay this up in my heart. On this ac- - 

22 count I will wait for the mercies of the Lord, because he hath — : 
ποῖ quite forsaken me—because his compassion is not ex- 
hausted. In the ensuing months, O Lord, exercise Compas- 

- sion, since we are not quite consumed—since thy mercies are 
23 not exhausted. New every morning is thine abundant faithful- 
24 ness. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore I will 
25 wait for him. The Lord is gracious to them who wait for him; 
26 for the soul, that will seek him, there is good; let it therefore 
ΟἿ wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for aman 


Ch. III. LAMENTATIONS. 


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when he hath borne a yoke in his youth. He will sit solitary and 
be silent, because he hath taken it upon him. He will give his 


31 cheek to him who smiteth it; he will feed on reproaches; be- 


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36 


cause the Lord will not cast off forever—because he who hath 
humbled will have compassion, even according to the multi- 
tude of his mercies. He did not answer from his heart and 
humble the children of men with an intent to crush under his 
feet all the prisoners of the earth; to turn aside the cause of 
man from before the Most High.To condemn a man when he 
is on his trial, the Lord hath not enjoined. 

(a) Who ever enjoined thus; when it hath happened, hath 
not the Lord ordered it? 

(b) From the mouth of the Most High shall not ills pro- 
ceed as well as good? Why should a living man murmur—a 
man for his sin offering? Our way hath been searched and tried; 
let us then return to the Lord. Let us offer up our hearts on 


2 our hands to Him who is High in heaven. We have sinned; we 


have been guilty of impiety; and thou hast not been appeased. 
Thou hast covered with wrath and discarded us; thou hast 
slain and hast not spared; thou hast covered thyself with a 
cloud because of prayer, that I may shut mine eyes and be 
cast off. Thou hast placed us in the midst of the peoples; all 
our enemies have opened their mouths against us. On us are 
come terror and wrath, desolation and destruction. Let 
streams of water be collected by mine eye, for the destruction 
of the daughter of my people. Mine eye is bathed in tears and 
I cannot keep silence that it may dry, until the Lord look 
down from heaven and behold. Let mine eye be more watch- 
ful for my life, than all the daughters of a city. With eagerness 
all mine enemies have hunted me like an ostrich; without 


. cause they have condemned me to die in a dungeon, and placed 


a stone over me. Water was poured above upon my head. I 
said, Iam cast off. I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the 
deepest dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice; stop not thine 
ear against my supplication. ‘To my assistance thou didst draw 
near. On the day I called on thee, thou saidst to me, Fear not. 


(a) An objection. (Ὁ) The answerr 


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Ch. IV. LAMENTATIONS. 


58 Thou, O Lord, hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast 
59 redeemed my life. Thou, O Lord, hast seen my wrongs; thou 
60 hast decided my cause. Thou hast seen all their vengeance— 
61 into all their devices against me. Thou hast heard their re- 
62 proach—all their charges against me—the speeches of them 
63 who accused me; their studied harangues against me all the day 
64 long. At their sitting down and their rising up, look down on 
65 their eyes. Thou, O Lord, wilt render them a recompence ac- 

66 cording to the works of their hands. Thou walt give them for 
a shield the sorrow of my heart. Thou wilt pursue them with 
indignation, and destroy them utterly from under heaven. 

IV. HOW gold can be tarnished!.How pure silver can be 
changed! Holy stones were shot down at the head of all the 
outlets. | 

2 The sons of Sion who were precious, more precious than 
gold; how they have been accounted as earthen vessels, the 
works of a potter’s hands. 

3 Surely jackals drew out the breasts; their whelps.suckled 
the daughters of my people, to make them unnatural as the 

ostrich in the desert. 

4. The tongue of a sucking babe cleaved to the roof of its 
mouth for thirst: infants asked for bread, eri is none who 
breaketh it for them. 

5 They who had fed upon dainties perished in the highways; 
they who had been nursed in scarlet were covered with dung. 

6 The transgression of the daughter of my people was greater 
than that of Sodom which was overthrown suddenly, without 
tiring hands with it. 

7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow; they were whiter than 
milk. They were more ruddy than a sapphire. Behold their 
change! 

8 Their visage became Slade than soot. They are not 
distinguished in the streets. Their skin is shrivelled to their 
bones. They are withered. They are become like a stick. 

9 The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those 
slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want 
of the fruits of the field. 

10 The hands of tender-hearted, women boiled their own chil- 
dren; these were food for them in the extreme distress of the 
daughter of my people. 


Ch. V. “LAMENTATIONS. 


11 The Lord hath executed his wrath—he hath poured out 
his fierce anger. He hath kindled a fire in Sion, which hath 
devoured her very foundations. 

12... ‘Thekings of the earth; all the inhabitants of the world did 
not believe that an enemy and a destroyer could have entered 
the gates of Jerusalem. 

138 Because of the sins of her prophets; the niquities of her 
priests; of them who were shedding innocent blood, in the 
midst of her, (her watchmen shuddered in the streets, they were 
polluted ith blood, as they could not but have touched their 

15 clothes. ‘Stand off from the unclean.” Call to them “Stand off ! 

᾿ Stand off! touch not” because they had been touched they shud- 
dered.) Say among the nations, Letthem nolonger sojourn there. 

16 The presence of the Lord was their portion; he will no 

~ more look upon them: they paid no respect to the presence of 
priests; on prophets they had no compassion. 

17 While we yet existed our eyes failed looking in vain for 
our help. When we looked out, we looked to a nation that 
could not save. 

18 We have hunted for our little ones that they might not 
walk in our streets. Our time is come. Our days are fulfilled. 
Our time is at hand. 

19 They who pursue us are swifter than eagles in the air; they 
overtook us on the mountains. They lay in wait for us in the 
desert. 

20 In their slaughters is comprehended the breath of our nos- 
trils, our anointed Lord, of whom we said, Under his shadow 
we shall live among the nations. 

21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of qaniniely who dwellest 
in the land. To thee however {πὲ cup of the Lord will come 
and thou shalt drink and vomit. 

22 O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity is pons away. He will 
no more banish thee. He hath visited thine iniquities, O daugh- 
ter of Edom. He hath exposed thee for thy sins. 


Vv. REMEMBER, O Lord, what hath befallen us: look down 
2 and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is transferred to stran- 
3 gers; our houses to foreigners. We are become orphans. Our 


Ch. V. LAMENTATIONS. 


4 father 15 πὸ more. Our mothers are like widows. Our water 


-we have drunk for money. Our wood came by barter on our 


shoulders. We have been persecuted. We have laboured and | 
have had no rest. Egypt laid to a hand; Assyria, till they 
were satisfied. Our fathers sinned; they are no more. We 
have borne their transgressions. Slaves have got dominion 


‘over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand. At the © 


peril of our lives we must gather in our corn, because of the . 
sword of the desert. Our skin is black as an oven. They are 
shrivelled up by storms of famine. Our wives are humbled 
in Sion; our virgins in the cities of Juda. Our chiefs were 
hanged up by their hands; our elders were held in no esteem. 
Our warriors took up a lamentation ; and our youths fainted 
under a club. Our elders have ceased to attend at the gates, 
and our chosen men have ceased from their songs. The joy 
of our heart is at anend ; our dance is turned into mourning. 
Our crown is fallen from our head; alas for us! for we have 
sinned. Because of this, grief is come upon us—our heart is 
full of sorrow : because of this, our eyes are dim. On mount 
Sion, because it is desolate, foxes have walked about. But 
thou, O Lord, wilt inhabit it forever : thy throne is for all ge- 
nerations. Why wilt thou utterly forget us? Wilt thou leave 
us for length of days? Turn us to thee, O Lord, and we shall be. 
turned and renew our days as heretofore. Because thou wast 
cast off, thou hast cast us off; thou hast been provoked against 


us to a high degree. 


EZERIED, 


In the thirtieth year, and fourth month, on the fifth day 
of the month, when I was among the captives by the river 


Chobar, the heavens were opened and I saw the visions of 


God. On the fifth of that month (this was the fifth year of the 
captivity of king Jechonias) the word of the Lord came to 
Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, 
by the river Chobar. And the hand of the Lord was upon me, 
and I looked, and lo! a whirlwind came from the north, and 
with it a great cloud surrounded with a splendor of flashing 
fire; and in the midst thereof, an appearance like that of am- 


Ch. I. EZEKIEL. 


5 ber in the middle of the fire, anda splendor in it. And inthe 


middle, a resemblance like that of four living beings. And this 


6 was the appearance of them. They hada resemblance of a man 
7 in them. And each had four faces, and each had four wings; 


© © 


and their legs were straight and their feet winged and spark- 
ing like sparkling brass. And their wings had a quick mo- 
tion. And underneath their wings on their four sides was a 
man’s hand. And the faces of the four turned not when they 
went. They marched forward each having a face on every 


10 side. And with regard to the similitude of their faces, the four 


had the face of a man with the face of a lion, on the right; 
and on the left the four had the face of a bullock, and the four 
had a face of an eagle. And the wings of the four were ex- 
panded upwards, each having a pair expanded adjoining each 


12 other and a pair folded on their body. And they moved on, 


each straight forward, which way soever the wind was mov- 
ing, they moved on, and turned not. And in the midst of the 
four living beings, was an appearance like that of glowing 
coals of fire, resembling lamps whirling round between the 
living beings with a splendor of fire, and from the fire light- 
nings flashed. And I beheld and lo! on the ground, close to 
the four living beings a wheel! one to every of the four.— 
And the appearance of the wheels was like the appearance 
of a beryl. And the four had one and the same likeness. 
And their workmanship was as if there was a wheel within 


17 a wheel. They ran on their four sections and shifted not 


their position when they ran, nor did their felloes when they 
were elevated. And I beheld, and their felloes were full of 
eyes, all around the four. And when the living beings moved 
on, the wheels moved on close by them. And when the 
living beings mounted up from the earth, the wheels mount- 


20 ed up. Wherever the cloud was, there was the wind for 


their movement ; the wheels moved on and were carried 
aloft with them. Because there was a breath of life in the 


. wheels, when the living beings moved on, the wheels moved © 


on: when those stood still, these stood still: and when those 


-.mounted up from the earth, these mounted up with them, be- 


22 


cause there was a breath of life in the wheels. And over the 
head of the living beings, there was a likeness resembling a 


ΟἸ...11- EZEKIEL. 


firmament, like the appearance of chrystal over their wings, 
23 which were expanded above them. And their wings which 
were expanded. below the firmament, flapped one against ano- 
ther, while every one had a pair that covered. their bodies.— | 

24 And when they moved on I heard the sound of their wings 

like the sound of much water: but when they stopped, their 

25 wings were still. And lo! a voice from above the firmament! 

26 this being over their heads, there was an appearance like that _ 

of a sapphire stone and a resemblance of a throne upon it. And 
upon the resemblance of the throne a resemblance like the ap- 

27 pearance of amanabove. And Isawaresemblance of amberfrom 

the appearance of the loins and upwards; and from the appear- 
ance of the loins and downwards, I saw an appearance of fire: 
and the splendor thereof round about was like the bow which 
is in the clouds in a showery day. Such was the state of the 

splendor round about. | 

1. THIS wasthe vision of the likeness of the glory of the 

Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and I heard a voice 

of one speaking and he said to me, Son of man, stand on thy 

feet and I will'speak to thee. Whereupon a blast of wind came 
upon me and took me and lifted me up and set me on my 
feet and I heard him speaking to me and he said to me, 

3 Son of man, I am about to send thee to the house of Israel, 
to them who are provoking me; who have provoked me, both | 

4 they and their fathers even to this day. And thou shalt say un- 
to them, ‘Thus saith the Lord,” whether they hear or be af- 
frighted; (for they are a provoking house) and let them know 
that thou art a prophet among them. And thou son of man, be 
not afraid of them nor daunted at their presence. Because they 
will sting thee and rise up against thee on all sides and thou 
dwellest in the midst of scorpions, be not afraid of their words 
nor terrified at their looks—because they are a provoking 
house, therefore thou shalt deliver my words to them whether 
they hear or be affrighted. 

8. Because they are a provoking house, thou therefore, son of 
man, hear him who is speaking to thee and be not thou rebel- 
lious like this rebellious house. Open thy mouth and eat what 
I give thee. 

9 Then I looked, and lo! a hand stretched out towards me 


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Ch. III. EZEKIEL. 


and in it a roll of a book and he unfolded it before me and 
there were writings on it on both sides. And the writings were 
funeral odes and songs of woe. 

III. | And he said to me, Son of man eat this roll and go and 
2 speak to the children of Israel. And when he had opened my 
3 mouth and put the roll into it, he said to me, Son of man, Let 

thy mouth eat and thy belly be filled with this roll which is 
given thee. So 1 ate it, and it was in my mouth sweet as ho- 
4 ney. Then he said to me, Son of man, go and get thee to the 
5 house of Israel and speak to them these words of mine, seeing 
thou art sent to the house of Israel—not toa people of strange 
6 language, nor to many tribes of strange and foreign tongues, 
nor to them whose pronunciation is harsh and whose words 
thou canst not understand; though had I sent thee to such they 
7 might have hearkened to thee. But the house of Israel will not 
hearken to thee, since they are not willing to hearken to me. 
Because all the house of Israel are contentious and stubborn, 
8 therefore behold I have made thy face strong against their 
faces, and I will invigorate thy struggle against their strug- 

9 gling and it shall be on all occasions firmer than a rock. Be not 

afraid of them nor daunted at their countenance, because they 

10 area provoking house. ‘Then he said to me, Son of man, lay 

up in thy heart all the words which I have spoken to thee; and 

11 having heard with thine ears go get thee to the captivity, to 

the children of thy people, and thou shalt speak to them and 
say to them, ‘Thus saith the Lord,” whether they hear or for- 
bear. 

12 Then a blast of wind took me up and I heard behind me 

a sound of a great earthquake, ‘‘Blessed be the glory of the Lord 
JSrom this place of his:? whereupon I looked towards the sound 
and saw that this sound of an earthquake was that of the wings 

14 flapping one against another and that of the wheels near them. 

Then the blast lifted me up and bore me aloft and I went by 
the impulse of my own spirit, and the hand of the Lord upon 

15 me was strong, and being borne aloft I came to the captivity 

and went round among them who dwelt by the river Chobar— 
among them who were there. And I abode there seven days 
conversing with them. 

16 And after these seven days aw ord of the Lord came to me 


Ch Ty. EZEKIEL. 


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19 


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IV. 


saying, Son of man; I have made thee a watchman to the house 
of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear a word from my mouth 
and warn them from me. When I say to the unrighteous, Thou 
shalt surely die, and thou hast not warned the unrighteous to 
turn from his ways that he may live; that unrighteous man 
shall die for his iniquity; but his blood I will require at thy 
hand. But if thou hast warned the unrighteous and he will not 
turn from his iniquity and from his way; that unrighteous man 
shall die for his iniquity, and thou shalt deliver thy soul. So 
when a righteous man turneth from his righteous acts and 
shall commit transgression though I lay the punishment before 
him; he shall die. Because thou hast not warned him, though 
he indeed shall die for his sins (for his righteous acts will not 
be remembered;) yet his blood I will require at thy hand. But 
if thou hast warned the righteous man not to sin and he sin- 
neth not; the righteous man shall live; and because thou hast 
warned him, thou shalt deliver thy soul. 

Then the hand of the Lord was upon me; and he said to 
me, Arise and go out to the plain and I will there speak to thee. 
So I arose and went out to the plain; and behold the glory of 
the Lord stood there like the vision and like the glory of the 
Lord which I saw by the river Chobar. Whereupon I fell on ~ 
my face. And a blast of wind came upon me and set me on 
my feet, and he spoke to me and said to me, Go and shut thy- 
self up in thy house. Now son of man, behold chains are pre- 
pared for thee; and thou shalt be bound with them and shalt 
not get out of them. And I will bind up thy tongue, that thou 
mayst be dumb and not be to them a reprover, because they 
are a rebellious house. And when I speak to thee, I will open 
thy mouth and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, | 
whoso heareth let him hear; and let him who is disobedient, be 

disobedient, since they are a rebellious house. And thou 
son of man, take thee a tile and set it before thee and pourtray 


2 thereon the city Jerusalem; and thou shalt lay siege to it and 


build mounts against it and throw up a circumvallation around 
it and pitch camps against it and arrange the towers for engines 


3 round about. Then take thee an iron pan and place it as an 


iron wall between. thee and the city and set thy face against it 


4 and it shall be besieged and thou shalt besiege it. This 1s a 


συν. + EZEKIEL. 


10 


sign for the children of Israel. And thou shalt lie on thy left 
side and lay on it the iniquities of the house of Israel. Accord- 
ing to the number of the hundred and fifty days which thou 
shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquities. Now I have 
given thee their iniquities to the number of a hundred and 
ninety days. So when thou hast taken the iniquities of the 
house of Israel and finished them, thou shalt lie on thy right 
side and bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days. I 
have given thee aday for ayear. Therefore thou shalt prepare 
thy face for the siege of Jerusalem and strengthen thine arm and 
prophesy against it. And behold I have given chains for thee 
that thou mayst not turn from one of thy sides to the other until 
the days of thy siege are accomplished. Provide therefore for 
thyself wheat and barley and beans and lentiles and millet and 
rye and put them into an earthen vessel and make them into 
loaves for thyself according to the number of the days which 
thou liest on thy side, to be eaten in the course of a hundred and 
ninety days. And thou shalt eat thy bread by weight, twenty 


11 shekels a day. From time to time thou shalt eat it: and thou 


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16 


shalt drink water by measure, namely the sixth of an hin to be 
drunk at stated times. And thou shalt eat the loaves baked like 
barley cakes on the hearth, and thou shalt bake them in their 
sight with a fire made of human ordure and shalt say, ‘Thus 
saith the Lord the God of Israel, So shall the children of Israel 
eat impure meats among the nations. Upon this 1 said, Not 
so: O Lord God of Israel, seeing my soul hath not been pollut- 
ed with impurity. Even from my birth to this day I have not 
eaten what died of itself, or was torn by wild beasts, nor hath any 
tainted flesh ever entered my mouth. Thereupon he said to 
me, Behold I have given thee the dung of cattle instead of hu- 
man ordure that thou mayst bake thy loaves with it. Moreover 
he said to me, son of man, Behold I break the staff of bread in 
Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with scanti- 
ness; and they shall drink water by measure and with faintness; 
that they may be in want of bread and water and perish, one 
and all, and be wasted away for their iniquities. | 
And thou son of man, take thee a knife sharper than a bar- 
ber’s razor and having procured such a one thou shalt pass it 


over thy head and thy beard. Then thou shalt take a pair of 
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Ch. V. EZEKIEL. 


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scales; and having weighed the hair thou shalt burn the fourth 
part of it with fire, in the space before the city; during the 
completion of the days of the siege. And thou shalt take 
another fourth part and burn it in the midst of the city; and thou 
shalt hack with the sword another fourth part, around the city; 
and the other fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind and I will 
draw out a sword after them. But of this parcel thou shalttake a 
few innumber and tie them up in thy mantle. Yet even of these 
thou shalt take some and cast them into the midst of the fireand 
burn them with fire which shall come out of the city and thou shalt 
say to all the house of Israel thus saith the Lord, This is Jerusa- 
lem. I placed her in the midst ofnationsand the countriesaround 
her, that thou shouldst tell my rules of rectitude to such of the 
nations as are without law; and that mine ordinances might be 
the ordinances of the countries around her. Because they re- 
jected my rules of rectitude and did not walk by mine ordi- 
nances; therefore thus saith the Lord, Because you have taken 
your bent from the nations around you, and have not walked 
in my statutes, nor practised my rules of rectitude, nor acted 
even conformably to the moral precepts of the nations around 
you; therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee; 
and in the midst of thee I will execute judgment in the sight 
of the nations, and do to thee according to all thine abomina- 
tions, what I have not done, and the like of which I will not 
do any more. For this cause fathers shall eat children in the 
midst of thee; and children shall eat fathers. And I will exe- 
cute judgment upon thee, and scatter all the remnant of thee 


to every wind. For this cause, as I live saith the Lord, Be- 


cause thou hast polluted my holy things with all thine abomi- 
nations; therefore I will cast thee off; mine eye shall not spare 
nor will I have compassion. The fourth part of thee shall be 
consumed with pestilence; and the fourth part of thee shall 
perish by famine in the midst of thee; and the fourth part of 
thee shall fall by the sword around thee; and. I will make bare 
a sword to pursue them. And my wrath shall be spent, and 
mine indignation, on them; and thou shalt know why I the 
Lord be spoken in my zeal, when I have executed mine in- 


14 dignation on them. And I will make thee and thy daughters 


Ch. VI. EZEKIEL. 


around thee, a desolation, in the sight of every one who pass- 

15 eth by. And thou shalt be an object of lamentation and hor- 
ror to thenations around thee, when I have executed judg- 
ment on thee with mine avenging wrath: I the Lord have 

16 spoken. For when I have sent against them my shafts of fa- 

17 mine and they shall be for destruction, I will break thy staff 
of bread and send against thee famine and wild beasts; and 
punish thee; and death and blood shall pass through upon thee: 
and I will bring a sword against thee from all around; I the 
Lord have spoken. 


Vi. II. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
Son of man set thy face against the mountains of: Israel and 
prophesy against them and thou shalt say, 

3 O mountains of Israel, hear a word of the Lord; ‘Thus saith 
the Lord to the mountains and hills, and to the vales and the 
forests, Behold I am bringing a sword against you; and your 

4 high places shall be destroyed; and your altars and your tem- 

_ ples shall be trodden down; and I will cast down your slain be- 

5 fore your idols; and scatter your bones around your altars 

6 and in all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste 
and the high places desolated, that your altars may be utterly 
destroyed: and your idols shall be trampled down, when your 

7 fanes are removed; and your wounded shall fall. in the midst 

8 of you; and you shall know that I am the Lord. When some 
of you, who have escaped from the sword, are among the na- 

9 tions and in your dispersions through the countries; then shall 
those of you, who have escaped, remember me among the 
nations whither they have been carried captives. With their » 
heart which is going a whoring from me, and with their eyes, 
which are going a whoring after their own devices(I have sworn) 

10 they shall bewail themselves for all their abominations and ac- 
knowledge that I the Lord have spoken. 

1] Thus saith the Lord, Clap with thy hand, and stamp with 
thy foot, and say, Ha! ha! to all the abominations of the 
house of Israel. By sword and by pestilence, and by famine 

12 they shall fall. He who is near shall fall by the sword; and. 
he who is far off, shall die by pestilence; and he who is besieged 

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13 onthem. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when your 
slain are in the midst of your idols, around your altars, on 
every lofty mount, and under every shady tree, where they 

14 offered a sweet smelling savour to all their idols. For I will 
stretch forth my hand against them ; and make the land a de- 
solation and a scene of destruction, from the wilderness of 
Deblatha through all their habitations; and aay shall know 
that I am the Lord. — 


ΝΠ]. ΠῚ. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me saying, 
2 And thou son of man say, Thus saith the Lord, To the land 
of Israel an end is coming. The end is come upon the four 

6 wings of the land. The end is coming on thee who inhabitest 
7 the land. The time is come. The day hath approached, not 
8 with commotions nor with pangs. Now near at hand I pour 
out mine indignation on thee; and upon thee I will spend my 
wrath ; and judge thee for thy ways, and retribute to thee all 

9 thine abominations. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have 
compassion. Because I will retribute to thee thy ways, when 
thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee ; therefore 
thou shalt know that it is I the Lord who smite thee. Now 
the end is upon thee. I will send it against thee, and punish 
thee for thy ways and retribute to thee all thine abominations. 
4 Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion. Because 
I will recompense upon thee thy ways, when thine abomina- 
tions shall be in the midst of thee ; therefore thou shalt ac- 

5 knowledge that I am the Lord. For thus saith the Lord, Lo! 
1] the end is coming. Behold it is the day of the Lord. If indeed 
the rod hath budded, pride hath come to a full growth.— 
Therefore he will break the stay of the unrighteous ; but not 

12 with commotion nor with perturbation. ‘The end is come. 
Behold the day! let not him who purchaseth rejoice, nor 

13 him who selleth, mourn; since he who purchaseth shall no 
more return to him who selleth. Nor will any man hold with 

14 an eye to life. Sound the trumpet and pass sentence on all 
15 together. Abroad let there be battle with the sword, and at 
home famine and pestilence. Let him whois in the field die 

by the sword ; and them in the city let famine and pestilence 

16 destroy. Now shall they escape who escape from among 


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them ? When they shall be on the mountains, I will indeed 
slay all, every one for his imiquities. 

All hands shall be enfeebled and all thighs stained with filth. 
And they shall gird on sackcloth; and amazement shall cover 
them. And shame shall be on all their faces: and on every 
head, baldness. Their silver shall be thrown in the streets ; 
and their gold shall be disregarded. Their souls shall not be 
satisfied; nor shall their bellies be filled: because the punish- 
ment of their iniquities is come. With their choice apparel 
which was laid by for ostentation—even with this they adorn- 
ed the images of their abominations ; therefore I have given 
it to them for defilement—even into the hand of strangers I 
will deliver it for plunder, and to be a spoil for the ravagers 
of the earth; and they shall defile it. And I will turn away 
my face from them ;.and they shall pollute the places under 
my peculiar inspection, and come into them unobserved, and 
profane them and make them an abomination. Because the 
land is full of peoples, and the city is full of iniquity ; there- 
fore I will turn back their tumultuous power, and their holy 
things shall be polluted. Though an atonement shall come 
and seek peace, it shall be no more. Woe shall succeed woe; 
and news be followed by news; and a vision shall be sought 
from a prophet: and law shall perish from the priest, and 
counsel from the elders—the chief shall be clothed with dark- 
ness; and the hands of the people of the land shall be weak- 
ened. According to their ways I will deal with them; and 
for their crimes I will punish them; and they shall know 
that I am the Lord. : 


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the fifth of the month as I was sitting at home, and the elders 
of Juda, were sitting before me, the hand of the Lord came 
upon me. And I looked and lo! a likeness of a man! From 
his loins downward was fire, and from his loins upward 
was an appearance like that of amber. And he stretched 
forth the similitude of a hand and took hold of me by the 
crown of the head and a blast of wind lifted me up between 
heaven and earth, and ina vision of God, brought me to Je- 


rusalem, to the vestibule of the gate facing the north, where 


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was the pillar of the possessor. And behold the glory of the 
Lord God of Israel was there, such in appearance as I saw 
in the plain. And he said to me, Son of man, look up with 
thine eyes towards the north. So I looked up with mine eyes 
towards the north, and behold from the north to the gate 
facing the east. +* And he said to me, Son of man hast thou 
seen what they are doing, They are committing great iniqui- 
ties here that they may abstain from my holy things: but 
thou shalt see still greater iniquities. Then he led me into 
the vestibule of the court, and said to me, Son of man, dig. 
So I digged and lo! a door. And he said to me, Go in and 
see the transgressions which they are committing here. So I 
went in and beheld, and lo ! vain abominations and all the idols 
of the house of Israel portrayed upon them round about and se- 
venty men of the elders of the house of Israel; and Jechonias 
the son of Saphan in the midst stood foremost, and every one 
had a censer in his hand, and the smoke of the incense ascend- 
ed. And he said to me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the 
elders of the house of Israel are doing, every one of them in this 
hidden apartment of theirs? For they said, The Lord doth not 
see. The Lord hath forsaken this land. Then he said tome, 
thou shalt see still greater transgressions which they are com- 
mitting. Then he led me tothe vestibule of the gate of the 
house of the Lord facing the north, and behold here were wo- » 
men seated, singing mournful ditties to Thammuz. And he 
said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen? Thou shalt see still 
worse devices than these. Then he led me into the inner court 
of the house of the Lord ; and at the vestibule of the temple of 
the Lord, between the ailams and the altar, were about twenty 
men; their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces 
the direct contrary way; and they were worshipping the sun. 
And he said tome, Hast thou seen? Son of man. Is ita light 
thing for the house of Juda to commit the transgressions, which 
they have committed here ? Because they have filled the land 
with miquity, and lo! they are as it were insulting me to my 


*, Here something seems to be wanting. I apprehend, it was. 


the people sacrificing to idols on the house tops. 


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face; therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye 
shall not spare, nor will I have compassion. 
Then in my hearing he cried with a loud voice and said, 
The punishment of this city is at hand, and every one hath in 
his hand the instruments of the destruction. Thereupon behold 
there came from the way of the high gate, which faceth the 
north, six men, every one with his battle axe in his hand; and 
in the midst of them a man clothed in a long robe and a girdle 
of sapphire about his loins. And when they came close to the 
brazen altar, the glory of the God of Israel which was upon 
the cherubims ascended from them and came to the open part 
of the house and called the man who was clothed with the long 
robe and who had a girdle about his loins, and said to him, Go 
through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead 
of those men who are sighing and sorrowing for all the trans- 
gressions which are committed among them; and to the others 
he said in my hearing, Go ye after him into'the city and smite 
and spare not with your eyes nor shew compassion. Destroy 
utterly old men and young, virgins and infants and married 
women; but go not near any of those who have the mark on 
them. Begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men 
the elders who were in the house. And he said to them, Defile 
this house and fill the ways with dead as you are going out 
and continue the slaughter. And while they were slaying them 
I fell on my face and cried aloud and said, Ah! Lord! art thou 
utterly destroying the remnant of Israel by pouring out thy 
wrath on Jerusalem? Whereupon he said to me, The iniquity 
of the house of Israel and Juda is exceeding great. Because 
the land is filled with many peoples and the city is filled with 
iniquity and impurity—and because they said, the Lord hath 
forsaken this land; the Lord doth not see; therefore mine eye 
shall not spare nor will I have compassion. I have requited 
their ways upon their heads. Then, lo! the man who was cloth- 
ed with the long robe and girded about the loins with the girdle 
came and made report, saying, I have done as thou orderedst 
me. Thereupon I looked, and behold above the firmament 
which was over the head of the cherubims, there was a resem- 


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blance of a throne above them like a sapphire stone.* And 
he said to the man who was clothed with the long robe, Go in 
between the wheels which are under the cherubims and fill 
thy hands with coals of fire from the midst of the cherubims 
and scatter them over the city. So in my sight he went in. 
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house as a 
man goeth in, and the cloud filled the inner court. And the 
glory of the Lord had removed from the cherubims to the open 


-part of the house and the cloud filled the house and the court 


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was filled with the splendour of the glory of the Lord: and the 
sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard to the outer 
court like the voice of God Saddai speaking. And when he 
had given orders to the man clothed with the holy robe, say- 
ing, Take fire from the midst of the wheels from between the 
cherubims and he had gone in and stood near the wheels, one 
stretched out his hand into the midst of the fire, which was be- 
tween the cherubims and took and put it into the hands of 
him who was clothed with the holy robe and he took it and 
went out. Now I saw that the cherubims had the likeness of 
men’s hands under their wings. I looked also and lo! four — 
wheels stood close to the cherubims, one wheel close to each 
cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the appear- 
ance of a carbuncle stone. And as for their appearance, the 
four had one and the same likeness, as if there was a wheel 
within a wheel. When they ran, they ran on their four sections. 
They altered not their position when they ran, for which way 
soever the foremost looked, they ran and altered not their 
position when they ran. Now their backs and their hands 
and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around 
the four wheels. And in my hearing these wheels were call- 
ed Gelgel. And the cherubims were the same living being 
which I saw by the river Chobar. And when the cheru- 
bims marched on, the wheels ran and kept close to them; 
and when the cherubims lifted up their wings and were borne 
alcft from the earth, their wheels altered not their position. 
When those stood these stood; and when those mounted up 


* Here also some words seem to be wanting, which pointed out 


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these mounted up with them, for there was a breath of life in 
18 them. Then the glory of the Lord went out from the house 
19 and mounted up upon the cherubims; and the cherubims rais- 
ed their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. 
When they went out the wheels were close by them. And 
they stopped at the vestibule of the gate of the house of the 
Lord which was over against the house and the glory of the 
20 God of Israel was above over them. This was the living being 
which I saw under the God of Israel at the river Chobar, and 
21 I knew that it was the cherubims. Every one had four faces, 
and every one had eight wings, and the likeness of mens’ 
22 hands under their wings. And as for the likeness of their faces, 
these were the same faces which I saw under the glory of the 
_ God of Israel at the river Chobar and they marched every one 
ΧΙ. straight forward. Then a blast of wind took me up 
and brought me to the gate of the house of the Lord which 
was directly in front and which faced the east. And behold at 
the vestibule of the gate about five and twenty men! And I saw 
in the midst of them Jechonias the son of Ezer and Phaltias the 
son of Banaias, the leaders of the people. And the Lord said 
to me, son of man, these are the men who devise vanities and 
who give bad advice in the city, Who say, Are not the houses 
lately rebuilt? This is the cauldron, but we are the flesh. 
Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, Son of man. 
Thereupon the spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said to me, 
Say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus have you spoken, O house of 
Israel, for 1 know the counsels of your mind: you have mul- 
6 tiplied your dead in this city, and filled the highways with the 
7 slain: therefore thus saith the Lord, your dead men whom you 
have slain in the midst of it, they are the flesh and it is the 
cauldron. As for you I will drag you out of the midst of it. 
You are afraid of the sword, therefore I will bring a sword 
9 against you, saith the Lord, and drag you out of the midst of 
it and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judg- 
10 ment upon you. By the sword you shall fall. On the mountain 
of Israel I will judge you; and you shall know that I am the 
Lord. — : : 
13 And it came to pass while I was prophesying that Phal- 
tias the son of Banaias died, whereupon I fell on my face and 
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cried witha loud voice and said, Alas! Alas! O Lord, art thou 
14. making an utter end of the remnant of Israel? Upon which a 
15 word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, an end was 
put to thy brethren and to the men of thy captivity and to all 
the house of Israel, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, 
16 Away with you far from the Lord: to us this land is given for 
an inheritance. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, I will 
drive these away to the nations and scatter them to every land. 
But I will be to those a little sanctuary in all the countries to 
17 which they have come. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, 
I will take those in from among the nations and collect them 
18 from the countries in which I have dispersed them and 
give them the land of Israel and they shall come hither and re- 
moye all its abominations and all its iniquities out of it; and 1 
19 will give them another heart and put a new spirit in them; and 
I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh and give 
them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and 
20 keep my judgments and execute them. And they shall be my 
21 people and I will be their God. But as the heart of these was 
entirely devoted to their abominations and their iniquities, 1. 
have requited their ways upon their heads, saith the Lord. 
22 Then the cherubims raised their wings and the wheels were 
close by them and the glory of the God of Israel was above 
23 over them. And the glory of the Lord ascended up out of the 
midst of the city and halted on the mountain which was over 
24 against the city. And a blast of wind took me up and. brought 
me to the land of the Chaldeans, to the captivity, in a vision, ‘by 
the spirit of God. And I went up on account of the vision 
ες which I saw and spoke to all the captivity all the things which 
the Lord had shewn me. 


XII. V. AGAIN aword of the Lord came to me, saying, 
2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of these unrighteous 
men, who have eyes to see but do not see; and have ears to 

3 hear, but do not hear. Because they are a rebellious house, do 
thou therefor Ὁ, son of man, provide thyself utensils for a day 

of captivity, in their sight. And thou shalt be carried captive 
from this place of i eile toanother place, in their sight, that they 


Ch. ΧΙ. EZEKIEL. 


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shalt carry out thy utensils, the utensils for a day of captivity, 
before their eyes. And thou shalt go out in the evening in their 
sight, as a captive goeth out. Make for thyself a breach in the 


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shalt be taken up upon shoulders and shalt go out in a secret 
manner. Thou shalt cover thy face and not see the ground, 
for I have made thee a sign for the house of Israel. 

So when I had done according to all that he had com- 
manded me; and had carried out utensils for a day of cap- 
tivity, and made in the evening a breach for myself in the 
wall, and had gone out in a concealed manner, being taken 
up upon shoulders in their sight ; a word of the Lord came 
to me in the morning, saying, Son of man, Did not the house 
of Israel, that rebellious house, say to thee, What art thou 
doing ? Say respecting them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord— 
With respect to him who is the chief, and the ruler in Jeru- 
salem, even to all the house of Israel, who are among them 
say, I am acting signs. As I have done, so shall it be with 
them. They shall go into banishment and captivity. And the 
chief in the midst of them shall be carried upon shoulders. 


He will go out ina secret manner through the wall; and a 


breach will be made for him to go out through it. *He will 
cover his face that he may not be seen and he himself shall 
not see the ground. But I will spread my net over him and 
he shall be caught in my enclosure. And I will bring him to 
Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans ; but he shall not see 
it and he shall die there. And all his helpers about him, and 
all them who assist him, I will scatter to every wind and make 
bare a sword to pursue them: and they shall know that I am 
the Lord, when I have dispersed them among the nations. 
For I will disperse them through the countries and leave a 
few of them from the sword, and from famine, and from pes- 
tilence, that they may declare all their iniquities among the 
nations whither they go. And they shall know that 1 am the 
Lord.— 

Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 
thou shalt cat thy bread with sorrow and drink water with 
tribulation and affliction, and thou shalt say respecting the 


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people of that land, Thus saith the Lord to the inhabitants of - 
Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They shall eat their loaves 
with scantiness, and drink water with astonishment, that the 
land may be wasted with the fulness thereof; for all its inhabi- 
20 tants are in a course of impiety ; and their cities which are 
inhabited shall be laid waste and the land shall be a desolation 
and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 
21 Again a word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, 
22 what proverb is this which you have concerning Israel, say- 
23 ing, The days are far off. Vision 15 lost. Therefore say to 
them, Thus saith the Lord, I will change this parable; and 
the house of Israel shall no more use it ; for thou shalt say to Ὁ 
them, The days are at hand and the word of every vision. For 
there shall no more be a false vision of any sort, or a flattering 
25 diviner among the children of Israel; for I the Lord will 
speak my words—I will speak and perform, and no more put 
off to a distant time; for in these your days, O rebellious 
- house, I will speak a word and perform it, saith the Lord. 
26 Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of 
27 man, behold the house of Israel, that rebellious house, speak 
saying, The vision which this man seeth is for many days ; 
28 and for times far distant he prophesieth; therefore say unto 
them, Thus saith the Lord, None of my words which I speak 
shall any more be prolonged. I will speak and I will perform 
saith the Lord. 


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ΧΠΕ VI. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me saying, 
2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel and thou 
3 shalt prophesy and say to them, Hear a word of the Lord, 

Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the prophets who prophesy from 
4. their own hearts and see nothing. Like foxes among ruins 
5 thy prophets, O Israel, stood not for strength. When flocks 
were collected against the house of Israel, they who say, “ In 
6 the day of the Lord,” stood not up. They are seers of lies 
they are prophesiers of vanities—they say, The Lord saith, 
Though the Lord did not send them: and in order to confirm 
7 a word they began with, ‘“‘ Have you not seen a false vision 
8 and spoken false prophesies,” now therefore say, Thus saith . 
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Ch. XIII. _ EZEKIEL. 


sies vain; therefore behold I am against you, saith the Lord; 

And I will stretch forth my hand against these prophets, who 

see falsehoods and prophesy vanities: they shall not be in the 

school of my people nor enrolled in the enrollment of the house 
of Israel; nor shall they enter into the land of Israel and they 

10 shall know that Iam the Lord. Because they have led my peo- 
ple astray, saying ‘‘Peace” when there was no peace. And 

11 when one buildeth a wall they anoint it; it shall fall. Say to 
these anointers, It shall fall. For there shall be an overwhelm- 
ing rain, and I will send hail stones against.their buttresses; 
and they shall fall; and a tempestuous wind; and it shall be bro- 

12 ken down. Now when the wall is fallen, will they not say to 
you, ‘Where is the anointing with which you anointed it?” 

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will cause a furious tempest 
to break it down; and there shall be an overwhelming rain in 
mine anger; And I will bring the hail stones against it with fury 

14 for destruction; and demolish the wall which you anointed; 
and it shall fall: and lay it flat on the ground and its foundations 
shall be discovered; and when it shall fall, you shall be consum- 
ed with rebukes; and you shall know that I am the Lord. 

15 When I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on them who 
anoint it; it shall fall. I have indeed said to you, the wall is no 

16 more, nor do they exist who anointed it, namely, the prophets 
of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see 
peace for her when there is no peace, saith the Lord. 

17 Now as for thee son of man set thy face also against the 
daughters of thy people who prophesy from their own heart; 
and prophesy against them and say, 

18 Thus saith the Lord, Woe to those women who sew pil- 
lows under every elbow; and make coverings for every head of 
every age, to lead souls astray. The souls of my people have 

19 been turned out of the way. They have indeed inveigled souls 
and profaned me to my people, for a handful of barley and 
for pieces of bread, to kill souls which should not die; and to 
preserve souls alive which ought not to live, by your oracling 

20 to the people who hearken to vain oracles. Therefore thus saith 
the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against your pillows on which 
you whirl souls about; and I will tear them from your arms and 
dismiss the souls—those souls which you are whirling about 


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21 for dispersion: and I will tear in pieces your coverings and de- 
liver my people out of your hand, and they shall no more be 
in your hands to be whirled about. And ye shall know that I 

22 am the Lord. Because you turned aside the heart of the righte- 
ous, whom I turned not aside, inorder that you might strength- 
en the hands of a transgressor that he should by no means 

23 turn from his evil way and live; therefore you shall no more 
see falsities, nor shall you any more utter divinations; for I will 
deliver my peopie out of your hand and you shall know that I 
am the Lord. 


XIV. ΝΠ. WHEN some of the elders, principal men of the 
people of Israel, had come to me and were sitting before me a 
word of the Lord came to me, saying, 

3 Son of man, these men have given their imaginations the 
rule over their hearts, though they placed before their eyes the 
punishment of their transgressions. Shall I, being consulted, 
return them an answer? Therefore speak to them, and thou: 
shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Be the man who he 
may of the house of Israel, who giveth his imagination the 
rule over his understanding, when he hath set before his eyes the 
punishment of his iniquity, and cometh to a prophet: I the Lord 
will answer him by the things with which his mind is entangled, 

5 that he may lead the house of Israel astray, according to their 

hearts which are alienated from me by their desires, Say there- 

6 fore to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, reform 

and turn from your evil devices, and from all your acts of im- 
7 piety; andturn your faces about. For be the man who he may 
of the house of Israel, or of the proselytes who have sojourned 
with Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and give his 
desires the rule over his understanding when he hath set be- 
fore his eyes the punishment of his iniquity and shall come to the 
prophet that he may inquire of me; I the Lord will answer him 
8 by that with which he is entangled; and I will set my face 
against that man, and give him up to desolation and de- 
struction; and remove him from among my people; and ye 

9 shall know that 1 am the Lord. And with respect to that pro- 

phet when he shall have wandered and spoken; I the Lord 
have caused that prophet to wander, and I will stretch out my 


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hand against/him and destroy him from among my people Is- 
rael. And they shall bear their iniquity; the inquirer according 
to his guilt, and in like manner the prophet according to his 
guilt, that the house of Israel may no more be led astray from 
me, and that they may no more be polluted with their trans- 
gressions: so they shall be my people and I will be their God, 
saith the Lord. | 

Again a word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of man, 
when a country transgresseth against me, so as to incur ruin; 
and I stretch out my hand against it; and break the staff of 
bread, and send against it famine, and destroy out of it both 
man and beast; should there be in it three such men as these 
Noe, Daniel and Job: They for their righteousness shall be 
saved, saith the Lord. Or if I send wild beasts against that 
land and punish it, and it become a desolation not to be travel- 


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as those; As I live, saith the Lord neither sons nor daughters 
shall be saved; none but they only shall escape, and the land 
shall be for destruction. Or if I bring a sword against that 
land, and say, sword, pass thou through this land, that I may 
cut off from it man and beast; should there be in it three such 
men as those; As I live saith the Lord, they shall not deliver 
sons nor daughters; they and they only shall be saved. Or ifT 
send a pestilence against that land, and pour out my wrath up- 
on it with slaughter, with intent to destroy out of it man and 
beast, and Noe, Daniel and Job be therein; As I live, saith the 
Lord, neither sons nor daughters shall be left: they for their 
righteousness shall deliver only their own souls. Yet thus 
saith the Lord, Though I send these my four severe judgments 
sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence, against Jeru- 
salem to destroy out of it man and beast, still, behold some are 
left init, the saved of it, who are leading out of itsons and daugh- 
ters; behold they are coming out to you and you shall see their 
ways and their desires, and be sorry for the evils which they 
have brought on Jerusalem—for all the evils which they have 
brought upon it. And they will comfort you, for you will sce 
their ways and their desires; and you will know that I have not 
without cause done all those things which I have done to it, 
saith the Lord. 


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XV. ΜΠ]. ~AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me, say- 
2 ing, Son of man, Why should the wood of the grape vine be 


distinguished from the wood of all the branchy trees which are 


3 among the trees of the forest? Can men use the wood of it for 


any kind of workmanship? Can they make a pin of it to hang 


A thereon any utensil? Is it not in a peculiar manner doomed to 


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be consumed by fire? Every year the fire consumeth what is 
lopped from it. And if a bit of it is left, is it fit for any kind of 
workmanship ? Even when entire it will be unfit for any 
work : how then, when fire hath burned it to a brand, can it 
serve for any work? Say therefore, Thus ‘saith the Lord, 
Like the wood of the vine among the'trees of the forest, 
which I have doomed to be destroyed by fire, so have I 


7 doomed the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face 


against them. When they escape out of one fire another shall 


᾿ devour them. And they shall know that Iam the Lord, when 
8 I set my face against them. And I will make the land a deso- 


lation for their apostacy, saith the Lord. 


XVI. Thena word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man 


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testify against Jerusalem her iniquities, and thou shalt say, 
Thus saith the Lord to Jerusalem, Thy root and thy pedigree 
is from the land of Chanaan. Thy father was an Amorite and 
thy mother a Chettite, and this is the history of thy birth—on 
the day thou wast born thy navel was not tied nor wert thou 
washed with water nor sprinkled with salt; nor wert thou 
wrapped up in swaddling bands. But mine eye which was 
over thee did not spare to do for thee all these things—to 
compassionate thee. When thou wast cast out into the open 
field for thine ill shape, on the day thou wast born; I passed 
by thee and saw thee polluted with thy blood and said to thee, 

From thy blood there is life. Be multiplied like the grass of 
the field; I have betrothed thee. So thou didst increase and 
grow great and enter the class of chief cities. Thy breasts 
were fashioned and thy locks flowing. But thou wast naked 
and exposed to shame. Then I passed by thee and beheld 
thee and lo! thou wast of a marriageable age. So I spread my 
skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and sware to thee 
and entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord. And 
when thou becamest mine I washed thee with water, and 


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And I clothed thee with embroidery and shod thee with pur- 
ple sandals and girded thee with a cotton zone and threw 
around thee a mantle of tissue. And I decked thee with orna- 
ments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round 
thy neck, and gave thee a jewel for thy nose and ear-rings for 
thine ears, and a crown of exquisite beauty for thy head. So 
thou wast adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was 
of cotton, tissue and embroidery; and thy food was fine flour, 
oil and honey. And thou becamest exceeding beautiful, and thy 
fame spread among the nations for thy beauty. Because it was 
perfect by reason of the comeliness and the elegance with 
which I adorned thee, saith the Lord; thou wast vain of thy 
beauty and became a harlot because of thy renown: and didst 
pour out thy fornications upon every passenger. Nay thou 
didst take some of thy garments and make for thyself idols of 
needle work; and didst commit gross fornication on them. 
Though thou shouldst not have gone ἴῃ; nor should such a 
thing be done, thou didst take the vessels, which were thy 
boast, made of my gold and of my silver, some of those which 
I gave thee; and didst make for thyself male images and com- 
mit fornication with them. Thou didst take also thine em- 
broidered raiment and clothe them and didst set mine oil and 
mine incense before them. My bread also which I gave thee 
—the fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed thee, these 
thou didst set before them for a sweet smelling savour. Nay, it 
came to pass, saith the Lord, That thou didst take thy sons 
and thy daughters whom thou hadst born and didst sacrifice 
these to them to be devoured. As if it had been a small matter 
to commit fornication, thou didst slay thy children and offer 
them up, making them expiatory sacrifices to those images, 
(this exceeded all thy fornication) and didst not remember thy 
youth when thou wast naked and bare, when though polluted 
with thy blood thou didst live. Nay after all these acts of ini- 
quity, saith the Lord, thou didst moreover build for thyself a 
brothel; and erect for thyself a place of prostitution in every 
street; at the head of every street thou didst build thy brothels, 
and sacrifice thy beauty and prostitute thyself to every comer, 
and multiply thine acts of whoredom. When thou hadst com. 
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mitted fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours and lust- 


ful paramours; and hadst done this frequently to provoke me 


to wrath, though I stretched forth my hand against thee, and 


deprived thee of thy dues and delivered thee up to them who 
hate thee—to the daughters of the Philistines, who turned thee 
out of that way in which thou wast committing iniquity; yet — 
thou wentest a whoring among the daughters of Assur; and 
“even thus wast not satisfied. So having committed whoredom 
and not being satiated thou didst multiply thy covenants with 


the land of the Chaldees and even with these thou wast not 
satisfied. How can I dispose of thy daughter? saith the Lord 
seeing thou hast committed all these acts of an abandoned wo- 
man? And hast trebled thy fornication by thy daughters ? 


Having built a brothel at the head of every way, and erected. 


a place of’ prostitution in every street, wast thou like a harlot 


‘collecting hire? Was there ever an adulterous woman like thee 


receiving. gifts from her husband and giving rewards to her 


gallants? For thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, and 


loaded them with gifts to come to thee from all around. So 
there was in thee a depravity beyond other women, both in 
thy whoredom and with regard to them who committed lewd- 
ness with thee. Thy giving gifts and no rewards being given 
thee are evidences of thy depravity. Therefore, hear O harlot, 
a word of the Lord, thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast 
squandered thy money, therefore thy scandalous fornication 
shall be exposed before thy lovers; but for all thy wicked de- 
sires and for the blood of thy children whom thou hast sacri- 
ficed to them—for this behold I will assemble all. thy lovers 


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loved and all whom thou hatedst, and I will gather against thee 
them from all around; and lay open thy wickedness before 
them, that they may see all thy shame. And I will punish thee 
with the punishment of an adulteress, and involve thee in the 
blood of wrath and jealousy; and deliver thee up into their 
hands. And they shall demolish thy brothel, and pull down 
thy place of prostitution, and strip thee of thy clothing and 
seize thy fair jewels ; and when they shall have left thee naked 
and exposed to shame, then crowds shall be brought against 
thee, who shall stone thee with stones and hack thee with their 


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41 swords; and they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute 
- yengeance on thee in the sight of many women. So. will I 
42 turn thee from whoredom and no more give thee gifts. Then 
I will cause my wrath against thee to abate, and my jealousy 
shall be removed from thee, and I will be quiet and no more 

43 care for thee. Because thou hast not remembered thy youth | 
and hast grieved me with all these things; therefore behold I 
-have requited thy ways on thy head, saith the Lord. Thou 


AA indeed hast so added impiety to all thy transgressions that all © 


these things have occasioned the parable which people use 
against thee, saying, “‘ 4s was the mother so is the daughter.” 

45 Thou art indeed a very daughter of thy mother who aban- 
doned her husband and her children: and the sisters of thy 
brothers are they who abandoned their husbands and their ᾿ 
children. Your mother was a Chettite and your father an 

46 Amorite, your eldest sister is Samaria—she and her daughters 
who live on thy left; and your youngest sister who liveth on 

47 thy right is Sodom with her daughters. But thou hast not - 
walked even in their ways, nor done according to their trans- 
eressions in a small degree. “Thou hast surpassed them in all 

48 thy ways. As I live, saith the Lord, Sodom herself and her 
daughters did not do as thou and thy daughters have done. 

49 But this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom—Pride. 
Through fulness of bread and prosperity she and her daugh- 
ters grew wanton, There was this also in her and her daugh- 

50 ters that they did not assist the distressed and the needy; but 
were haughty and committed iniquities in my sight; therefore 

51 I destroyed them. In my view Samaria also did not commit 
half thy crimes. Thou indeed hast multiplied thine iniquities 
more than they, and justified thy sisters by all thine iniqui- 

52 ties which thou hast committed. Thou therefore shalt bear thy 
punishment. Inasmuch as thou hast corrupted thy sisters by 
thy sins, which thou hast committed in a more aggravated de- 
eree than they, and made them righteous in comparison of 
thee; be thou therefore confounded and bear thy dishonour, 
- for having justified thy sisters. When I turn back their apos- 
‘tacies—the apostacy of Sodom and her daughters, and turn 
back the apostacy of Samaria and her daughters, I will turn 
54. back also thine apostacy in the midst of them; that thou mayst 


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bear thy punishment and be dishonoured for all that thou hast 
done to provoke me to anger. And when thy sister Sodom 
and her daughters shall be restored to their former state then 
thou and thy daughters shall be restored to your former state. _ 


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days of thy pride, before thy wickedness was discovered ; in © 
the same manner as thou art now the scoff of the daughters of 
Syria and of all around her and of all the daughters of the 
foreign tribes around thee? Thou hast borne thy wickedness 
and thy transgressions, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, 
I will deal with thee as thou hast done. As thou hast slighted 
these things that thou mightest transgress my covenant, when 
I remember my covenant made with thee in the days of thy 
youth and re-establish for thee an everlasting covenant; then 
thou wilt recollect thy way and be ashamed, when thow hast 
again received thy sisters—the elder and the younger. For I 
will give them to thee to be part of thy family, but not by thy 


covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and © . 


thou shalt know that I am the Lord, that thou mayst remem- 
ber and be ashamed, and never more be able to open thy 
mouth, because of thy confusion when I makeacomplete atone- 
ment for thee according to all that thou hast done, saith the 
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Son of man, relate a fable and speak a parable to the house 
of Israel and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, There was 
a great eagle with large wings, rapid in its motion and com- 
pletely furnished with talons: and it winged its way to Liba- 
nus, and took hold of its choicest cedar; and cropped the 
tops of the tender branch and brought them to the land of 
Chanaan, and in a walled city they were deposited. Then he 
took a seedling of the land, and planted it in a field by much 
water, and ordered it to be taken care of. And it sprang up 
and became a vine weak and small, so that its branches could 
be seen only by them near it. But it had roots underneath it, 
so it grew to be a vine, and put forth shoots and extended © 
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talons: and lo! this vine warped towards him, and its roots 
were towards him and it shot out its branches for him, that 
he might water it together with the shoot of its own planting, 
which being in a good soil by much water grew luxuriantly, 
so as to blossom and_ bear fruit, and become a great vine.— | 
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Shall it prosper? Shall 
not the roots of this tender shoot and its fruit be blasted ? 
Yes; all its former shoots shall wither; so that it will not re- 
quire a strong arm nor much people to pull it up by its roots. 
Though behold it is luxuriant, shall it prosper—shall it not 
wither at the first touch of a blasting wind? Both it andi its 
sprouting shoot shall be withered. 
Moreover a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of 
man say now to this rebellious house, Do you not know the 
meaning of this ? Say, When the king of Babylon. hath come 
to Jerusalem, and shall take the king thereof and the chiefs 
thereof, and hath caused them to be brought to him to Baby- 
lon; and shall take one of the royal seed and make a covenant 
with him, and shall lay him under an oath and comprehend 
the generals of the land, that it shall be a weak kingdom and 
never. be independent—that he will keep this covenant with 
him and that it shall stand. Now should he revolt from him 
so as to send his ambassadors to Egypt, that it may furnish 
him with horses and a great army, shall he prosper? Shall 
he who is perfidious escape ὃ And shall he who breaketh a 
covenant be delivered ? As I live saith the Lord, in the place 
where the king liveth, who made him king; even with him 
in Babylon shall he die who hath dishonoured my oath and 
broken my covenant: and neither with a great army nor with 
much people, shall Pharao support him in the war, when ram- 
parts are a raising, and towers a building to destroy lives.— 
As he hath dishonoured an oath, by breaking a covenant, 
(when lo! he had given his hand) and hath done all these 
things to him, he shall not escape. Therefore say, As I live 


saith the Lord, The oath which he hath dishonoured, and 
the covenant which he hath broken, even this I will requite 
‘upon his head. And I will spread my net for him and he shall 


be taken in my enclosure. In every engagement his men shall 
fall by the sword; and them who are left I will scatter to 


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every wind; and you shall know that I the Lord have. et 
22, For thus saith the Lord, 
μ" will myself take one of the choicest cedass fronvia a κω, 
; (their hearts I will nip) and I will plant it on a lofty 
23 ponte I will cause it to be suspended on a lofty moun- 
tain of Israel; and I will plant it, and it shall blossom and bear . 
fruit, and become a great cedar ; and under it shall rest every 
bird, even all the winged tribe shall repose in its shade :. its 
24 branches shall be renewed: and all the trees of the plain shall 
know that I am the Lord who bringeth down the lofty tree, 
and exalteth the tree which is low, and who causeth the green. 
tree to wither, and the withered tree to flourish. I the Lord 
have spoken and I will perform. ; | 


XVIII. X. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me, say- 
ing, Son of man why have you this proverb among the chil- 
dren of Israel, saying, ‘‘ The fathers have eaten a sour grape 

3 and the childrens’ teeth are set on edge.’’ As I live saith © 
the Lord, This parable shall no more be used by Israel, for 
all souls are mine. As the soul of the father so also the soul 
of the son is mine. The soul that sinneth it shall die. But 
the man who shall be just, who executeth judgment and jus- 

6 tice, who eateth not upon the mountains, nor lifteth up his 

eyes to the desires of the house of Israel, and defileth not his 
neighbour’s wife, nor approacheth a woman ina state of sepa- 

7 ration; who shall oppress no man; shall restore the pledge 

of a debtor and not be guilty of rapine; who shall deal out 

8 his bread to the hungry, and clothe the naked, and not lend 

his money on interest, nor take usury, and shall turn away | 

his hand from injustice, and execute righteous judgment be- 
tween man and man, and hath sail in my. statutes, and 
kept my judgments to do them. Such a one is righteous.— 

He shall live, saith the Lord. 

10 .. But if he beget a profligate son, a shedder of blood and 

11 one who committeth sins, who hath not walked in the way of 
his righteous father but hath eaten on the mountains and de- 

12 filed his neighbour’s wife; hath oppressed the poor and needy, 
and been guilty ofrapine; hath not restored a pledge and hath | 

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terest and taken usury. He shall not live. He hath committed 
all these iniquities. He shall surely die. His blood shall be 
14 tipon him. But if he beget a son who hath seen all the sins 
which his father committed and hath been struck with awe 
15 and not done the like—hath not eaten upon the mountains, 
nor fixed his eyes on the desires of the house of Israel; nor de- 
filed his neighbour’s wife, nor oppressed any man, nor taken a 
pledge; nor been guilty of rapine—hath dealt out his bread to 
17 the hungry and clothed the naked, and turned away his hand 
from injustice; hath neither lent on interest nor taken usury; 
hath practised justice and walked in my statutes; he shall 
not die for the iniquities of his father. He shall live. But as 
for his father, if he be guilty of rapine and oppression, he 
hath done wrong in the midst of my people, and for his iniqui- 
19 ties he shall die. Now should you say, Why hath not the son 
borne the iniquity of his father? Because the son hath practis- 
ed justice and mercy; hath kept all my statutes and done them, 
20 he shall live. But the soul which sinneth shall die. The son 
shall not bear the iniquity of his father; nor shall the father 
bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righte- 
ous shall be upon himself, and upon the iniquitous shall be his 
21 imiquity. But ifthe unrighteous man will turn from all the un- 
righteous acts which he hath done, and will keep all my com- 
mandments, and practise righteousness and mercy; he shall 
22 surely live and not die. None of the transgressions which he 
committed shall be remembered; for the righteousness which 
23 he hath exercised, he shall live. Can I (saith the Lord) so 
much desire the death of the unrighteous, as I do that he 
24 should turn from his evil way and live? But when a righteous 
man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth ini. 
quity according to all the iniquities which the wicked hath 
done, none of the righteous acts which he hath done shall be 
remembered. For the sins which he hath committed, even for 
25 these he shall die. Yet you have said, The way of the Lord is 
not straight. Hear now, all ye house of Israel, Is not my way 
straight? Is it not your way which is not straight? When the 
righteousturneth from hisrighteousnessand committethacrime, 
for the crime he committeth he should die—for it he shall 
27 die. And when a wicked man turneth from his wickednéss 
which he committed, and shall practise justice and righteous- 


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28 ness; he hath saved his soul. He hath turned away from all his 

wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall 

29 not die. Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is 

not straight. Is not my way straight, O house of Israel? Is it 

30 not your way which is not straight? I will judge you, saith the 

Lord, O house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be 

converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they 

31 shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity. Cast away 

from you all your impious acts; which you have impiously com- 

mitted against me; and make yourselves a new heart and a 

new spirit: now why do you die, O house of Israel, since I de- 
sire not the death of him who dieth? saith the Lord. 

XIX. Now take thou up a lamentation for the prince of Israel 

2 and thou shalt say, What was thy mother? She was a:lioness 

among lions. In the midst of lions she multiplied her young. 

_3 And one of her young lions sallied forth; he became a lion and 

. 4. learned to prowl. He devoured men and the nations heard of 

him; in their trap he was taken and carried in a cage to the land 

5 of Egypt. When she saw that her main support was removed 

from her, was lost; she took another of her young lions and 

6 made him lion. And he roamed about among lions. He be- 

7 came a lion and learned to seize prey. He devoured men and 

prowled with fierceness, and made their cities a desolation and 

laid waste the land, and the fulness thereof by the sound of his 

8 roaring. Then the nations set upon him from the countries 

around: they spread their nets for him; in their trap he was ta- 

9 ken. So they chained him and in a cage he came to the king 

of Babylon, who put him in prison that his voice should not 

10 be heard on the mountains of Israel. Thy mother was like a 

vine ora flowery pomegranate planted by water. It was fruit- 

11 ful and full of buds by being plentifully watered. And it be- — 

came a sceptre for them who bear rule overtribes, and became 

distinguished for its greatness among other stocks, and was 

12 conscious of its greatness by the multitude of its branches. But 

it is broken in wrath and thrown on the ground; and a burn- 

ing wind hath blasted its choice branches. Vengeance hath 

been taken on them: and the rod of its strength is withered; a 

15 fire hath consumed it. And now when they had planted it ina 

14 desert, inaland without water, a fire hath issued forth from a 

rod of her choice shoots, and consumed her and she hath no 


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τς more in her a sceptre of power. The tribe is become a parable 
- in the song of woe and shall be for a subject of lamentation. 


XK. X. AND it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifth 
month and tenth day of the month, that some of the elders of 
Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and while they were sitting 

3. before me a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man 
speak to the elders of the house of Israel and thou shalt say to 
them, Thus saith the Lord, Are you come to inquire of me? As 

4. I live, saith the Lord, I will not answer you; I will not, son of 
man, with avengement avenge them. Testify against them the 

5 iniquities of their fathers and thou shalt say to them, Thus 
saith the Lord, from the day I chose the house of Israel; and 
was made known to the seed of the house of Jacob; andacknow- 
ledged by them in the land of Egypt; when I took hold of 
6 them with my hand, saying, I the Lord am your God,—on the 
very day when I took hold of them with my hand to bring them 
out of the land of Egypt into the land which I had prepared for 
them—a land flowing with milk and honey—it is the honey- 

- 7 comb of the whole earth; though I said to them let every one 
put away the abominations of his eyes and with the devices of 
Egypt be not polluted, I the Lord am your God; yet they 

8 apostatized from me and would not hearken to me. They did 
not cast away the abominations of their eyes, nor did they ut- 
terly forsake the devices of Egypt; therefore I spoke of pour- 
ing out my wrath on them—of spending mine indignation on 

9 them inthe midst of Egypt: but that my name might not be 
altogether profaned in the sight of the nations among whom 
they were, I did in their sight [those miracles] by which I 
was made known to them, in order to bring them out of the 
land of Egypt. 

10 So I led them into the wilderness; and gave them my sta- 

11 tutes and made known to them my rules of rectitude, which if 

\12 aman practise he shall live thereby; 1 gave them also my sab- 
baths, to be a sign between me and them; that they might 

13 know that I the ici am their sanctifier. And I said to the 
house of Israel in the wilderness, “Walk in my statutes,” but 
they walked not. They rejected my rules of rectitude, which 


ἃ man practise he shall live by them; and they profaned my 
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sabbaths exceedingly: whereupon I spoke of pourmg out my 
‘wrath on them in the wilderness, to destroy them utterly: 

14 But Iacted sothat my name should not be altogether profaned in 
the sight of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them 

15. out: and I lifted up my hand against them in the wilderness thus 

_ far—that I would not bring them into the land which 1 had 
given them, (a land flowing with milk and honey: it is the ho- 

16 ney comb of the whole earth) because they had rejected my 

_ rules of rectitude, and had not walked in my statutes; but 
profaned my sabbaths, and had gone after the desires of their 

17 own heart. But mine eye had compassion on them so as not to 
blot them out entirely; so I did not bring them to utter destruc- 
tion in the wilderness. 

18 Then I said to their children in the wilderness, walk not ye 
in the customs of your fathers, nor observe their rules of con- 
duct; have no communication with their devices and be not 

19 polluted. Ithe Lord am your God; walk in my statutes, and 

20 keep my rules of rectitude and practise them; and hallow my 
sabbaths and let them be a sign between me and you, that you 

21 acknowledge that I the Lord am your God. But even these 
their children rebelled against me. In my statutes they did not 
walk, nor did they keep my rules of rectitude to practise them, 
which if a man do he shall live by them; and they profaned 
my sabbaths; therefore I spoke of pouring out my wrath upon 
them in the wilderness—of accomplishing mine indignation 

22 upon them. But Lacted so that my name should not be utterly 
profaned in the sight of the nations. As I had brought them out 

23 before their eyes, I lifted up my hand against them in the wil- 
derness that I would scatter them among the nations and dis- 

24 perse them through the countries. Because they did not prac- 
tise my rules of rectitude, but rejected my statutes and profan- 
ed my sabbaths, and their eyes were after the desires of their 

25 fathers; therefore 1 gave them statutes not morally good, and 
rules of conduct in which they could not entitle themselves to 

26 life by them, that I might by their own doctrinal notions pol- 
lute them, when I passed through all their first born males in 

27 order to remove them out of sight. Therefore, speak to the 
house of Israel, son of man, and thou shalt say unto them, 
Thus saith the Lord, thus far your fathers provoked me to 


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wrath, by their transgressions which they committed against 
me. And when I brought them into the land, which I lifted 
up my hand to give them; they beheld every high hill and eve- 
ry shady grove, and there they sacrificed to their gods; and 
there set in order the sweet smelling savour; and there pour- 
ed out their libations. And when I said to them, What is this 
Abama, that you go thither, they called its name Abama, which 
it retaineth to this day. Therefore say to the house of Israel, 
Thus saith the Lord if you are polluted with the iniquities of 
your fathers and you go a whoring after their abominations 
even with the first fruits of your gifts—with those dedications, 
with which you are polluted by all your desires even to this 
day, shall I return you an answer, O house of Israel? As I 
live, saith the Lord, I will not,answer you. And though this 
should come into your mind it shall not be as you say, ‘“‘We 
will be like the nations and like the tribes of the earth in wor- 
shipping stocks and stones.” For as 1 live, saith the Lord, 
With a strong hand and an uplifted arm, and with an out pour- 
ed wrath I will reign over you. And I will bring you out 


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where you have been scattered with a strong hand and an up- 
lifted arm and with out poured wrath. And I will bring you 
into the wilderness of the tribes and there plead with you face 
to face. As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of 
the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord. 
And I will make you pass under my rod and bring you in by 
number, and select from among you the wicked and the apos- 
tates; (for out of their captivity I will bring even these, but in- 
to the land of Israel they shall not come) and you shall know 
that I am the Lord, Lord. 

Now as for you, O house of Israel; ‘Thus saith the Lord, 
put away every one his devices, and after that if you will hear- 
ken to me, and no more profane my holy name with your eifts 
and your devices, (for on,my holy mountain, on my lofty 
mountain, saith the Lord, there all the house of Israel shall 


“serve me at last; and there I will expect and there I will accept 


your offerings—even the offerings of your dedications at all 
your solemnities) with the odour of sweet smelling incense 1 
will accept you, when I have brought you out from among the 


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peoples, and received you from the countries in which you 
have been dispersed, and I will be hallowed among you before 
the eyes of the peoples, and you shall know that I am the Lord, 
when I have brought you to the land of Israel, to the land for 
which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers; and you 
will there remember your ways and your devices with which 
you have been polluted, and express contrition for all your 
acts of wickedness: and acknowledge that I am the Lord, 
when I deal thus with you (that my name may not be profan- 
ed) according to your evil ways and ἜΝ to your corrupt 
devices, saith the Lord. 

Then a'word of the Lord came to me, saying, son of man, 
set thy face against Thaiman and look towards Daram and pro- 
phesy against the forest at the head of Nageb, and thou shalt 
say to the forest of Nageb, hear a word of the Lord, Thus 
saith the Lord, Lord, behold I am kindling a fire in thee, and 
it shall devour in thee every green tree and every dry tree; and 
the flame which is kindled shall not be extinguished; and by 
it the whole surface from south to north shall be burned up. 
And all flesh shall know that I the Lord have kindled it. It 
shall not be extinguished. 


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me, Is not this a parable which is spoken? Whereupon a ward 
of the Lord came to me saying, Therefore prophesy, son of 
man, set thy face against Jerusalem, and look towards their 
holy things, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel 
and thou shalt say tothe land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, be- 
hold I am against thee and I will draw my sword out of its 


sheath, and root out of thee the lawless and unjust. Because I 


will root out of thee the lawless and unjust; therefore my sword 
shall come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from south 
tonorth. And all flesh shall know, that I the Lord have drawn 
my sword out of its sheath. It shall not return any more. There- 
fore, son of man, heave thou convulsive groans, and sigh sor- 
rowfully before their eyes. And if they say to thee, Why art 
thou groaning? Then thou shalt say, Because of the news: for 
it is coming: and every heart shall be broken, and all hands en- 


fcebled; and all flesh and every spirit shall faint; and all thighs Ὁ 


shall be polluted with filth. Behold it is coming! saith the 
Lord.” 


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8 . Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of 
9 man, prophesy and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Say, 
10 O sword, sword be sharp, and full of fury that thou mayst 
slaughter; be sharpened that thou mayst glisten; being pre- 

11 pared for destruction slay ; set at naught; fell every tree. He 
hath now made it ready for his hand to grasp it. ‘The sword is 
sharpened. It isready to be put into the hand of the slayer. 

12 Scream, son of man, and raise the mournful cry; for it is come 
among my people; it is among all the leaders of Israel. They 
shall dwell near the sword. It is among my people. Therefore 
give ita clap of applause with thy hand. 

13 (p) Because its cause is just, what then? Must the tribe 
be cast off? 

14 (J) That shall not be the case saith the Lord, Lord. But, 
thou son of man, prophesy and clap thy hands and redouble 
the sword. It is the third sword of the slain, the great sword 
of slaughter. Therefore thou shalt strike them with terror. 

15 See that thy heart be not broken, though the fainty be multi- 
plied at every gate. They are delivered up to the slaughter of 
the sword. It is well made for slaughter. It is well made to 

16 glitter. Therefore pass throngh. Be sharp on the right and on 

17 the left; which way soever thy face may be raised up. And as 
for me I will-clap my hands and give a loose to my wrath. I 
the Lord have spoken. 

18 Then aword of the Lord came to me, saying, And thou 
son of man, Sketch out for thyself two ways, for the sword of 

19 the king of Babylon to enter. From one and the same coun- 
try let them both come; and let there be a hand at the head of 
the way to the city. At the head of that way thou shalt set it 

20 up, for the sword to enter against Rabbath of the Ammonites, 
and against Judea and against Jerusalem in the midst of it. 

21 For the king of Babylon will halt on the old road—at the head 

of the tworoads to consult an oracle, to divine with an arrow and 

inquire by graven images and imspect a liver. The oracle 
against Jerusalem is favourable, to throw up a rampart, to 
open his mouth with a war cry; to raise his voice with shout- 


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ing, to cast upa rampart against her gates to raise a mount 

and. build towers for his engines. Now while this man is to 

them as one consulting an oracle, that other is eine his 
usurpation to be remembered. 

24. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because you have brought 
your iniquities into remembrance by disclosing your impie- 
ties; that your sins may be seen, by all your acts of impiety and. 
by your devices—because you have brought them into remem- 

25 brance, forthem youshall be taken. Andas for thee, thou profane 
wicked ruler of Israel, whose day is coming at the appointed 

26 season, there is an end to thy usurpation. Thus saith the Lord, 
Thou hast pulled off the coronet, and put on the imperial dia- 
dem. It shall not be such. Thou haét debased what was high 

27 and exalted what was low. To usurpation, usurpation, usur- 
pation I will expose it; alas for it! Such it shall be till He 
come, to whom it of right belongeth; and I will give it to him. 

28 Now as for thee, son of man, prophesy and thou shalt say, 
Thus saith the Lord, with regard tothe Ammonites and. their 
reproach even thus thou shalt say, O sword, sword, drawn for 

_ slaughter, and drawn for destruction, be lifted up that thou 

29 mayst glisten. By the vain vision and false prophesying con- 
cerning thee, the day came at the appointed season, for turn- 

80. ing thee on the necks of wounded transgressors. There isan 
end of usurpation; turn back; tarry not. In the place where 

31 thou wast born, in thme own land I will judge thee. And I will 
pour out my wrath upon thee; and with the fire of mine indig- 
nation blow upon thee, and deliver thee into the hands of bar- 

$2 barous men skilled in destruction. Thou shalt be fuel for-fire 
and thy blood shall be in the midst.of thy land. There shall no 
more be any remembrance ‘of thee. I the Lord have spoken. 

XXII. Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Now, 

2 son of man, if thou will judge this bloody city, then point out 
to it all its iniquities and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, 
3 Lord, O city, which sheddest blood in the midst of thee, to 
cause thy time to come; and which makest idols against thy- 
4. self to pollute thyself. In the blood which thou hast shed, thou 
art fallen: and with thine idols, which thou hast made, thou 
art defiled: and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and 
hast brought on the term of thy years; therefore I have made 


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thee a scoff to the nations, and a mocking stock to all the coun- ὁ 


5 tries—to those near and to those far from thee; and they shall 


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insult thee, thou impure, infamous and abandoned city. Be- 
hold. in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded them- 
selves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood. 
In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised 
injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and 
the orphan; and in thee they despised my holy things and pro- 
faned my sabbaths. In thee men became robbers, that in thee 
they might shed blood. And they ate upon the mountains 
near thee; and in the midst of thee committed abominable 
things. In thee they uncovered the nakedness of a father; and 
in thee humbled a woman in a state of separation. In thee one 
debauched his neighbour’s, wife; another wantonly defiled his 
daughter in law; and another humbled his sister, his father’s 
daughter. In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee 
they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy 
wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith 
the Lord. Now when I lay my hand on thee to destroy thee, 
for what thou hast done and for the blood which hath been 
shed in thee; will thy heart endure? Will thy hands be strong 
in the day I deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken and 1 
will perform. I will scatter thee among the nations and dis- 
perse thee through the countries, and when thine impurity shall 
be consumed out of thee, I willtake possession of thee in the 
sight of all the nations; and you shall know that I am the 
‘Lord. Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, son of 
man, Behold to me the house of Israel are all become mix- 
ed with brass and iron and tin and lead with a mixture of 
silver. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Because 
you are become one mass, I will therefore gather you into the 
midst of Jerusalem : as silver and brass and iron and tin and 
lead are put in a furnace, that the fire may be blown on it and 
that it may be melted; So will Itake you in my wrath and 
gather you and melt you. And I will blow upon you with 
the fire of my wrath and you shall be melted in the midst of 
it. As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace; so shall you 
be melted in the midst of it; and you shall know that I the 
Lord have poured out my wrath on you. 


Ch. XXII. EZEKIEL. 


23 Αραϊπ ἃ word of the Lord came to me, saying; Son of 
24 man say to this land, Thou art a land which was not watered 
with showers; nor did rain fall upon thee in the day of indigna- 

25 tion. Its princes in the midst of it were like roaring lions, ra- 

~ -vening prey, devouring souls by oppression, yet receiving ho- 
nours; and thy widows were multiplied in the midst of thee. 

26 Its priests also despised my law and profaned my holy things; 

between what was holy and what was profane they made no 
difference, nor did they distinguish between the unclean and 
the clean. And from my sabbaths they hid their eyes and I was 

27 profaned in the midst of them. Its chiefs in the midst of it were 

’ like wolves,ravening prey, tothe shedding of innocent blood, that 
28 they may glut their greediness. They shall fall together with its 
prophets who anointed them, seeing vanities, prophesying lies, 
saying, Thus saith the Lord, Though the Lord did not 

29 speak, crushing by usurped authority the people of the land, 

and ravening prey, oppressing the poor and needy, and _pay- 
ing no regard to strangers to the administration of jus- 

30 tice. Though I sought among them for a man of integrity 

and for one who stood uprightly before me in the time of in- 
dignation that I might utterly destroy it, yet I found none : 

31 therefore I poured out my wrath upon it, to destroy it utterly 

with the fire of mine indignation. Their ways I have requited 
on their heads, saith the Lord, Lord. 

XXII. Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
2 Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same 
3 mother, who in their youth had committed whoredom in 
4 Egypt. There they were first deflowered. And these were their 

names—the eldest was called Oola and her sister, Ooliba. And 
when they became mine and had borne me sons and daughters, 
These were their names—Oola was called Samaria, and Ooli- - 
5 ba, Jerusalem. And Oola wantonly left me and attached her- 
6 self to her lovers—to the Assyrians her neighbours, whose 
generals and leaders were clothed in blue. And the chosen 
7 youth were all horsemen, mounted on horses. But though 
she indulged her wantonness with them, who were all the prin- 
cipal men of the Assyrians, and with all them to whom she at- 
8 tached herself; and defiled herself with all their idols; yet she 
did not forsake her fornication with Egypt because they had 


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lain with her in her youth and first deflowered her. Where- 


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of the Assyrians to whom she had attached herself. These ex- 
posed her shame. They took her sons and her daughters, and 
slew her with the sword, and she became a common talk for 
women, and by her they gave warning to their daughters. 
Though her sister Ooliba saw this, yet she became abandoned 
and more inordinate in her fornication than her sister. To the 


sons of the Assyrians she attached herself—to the rulers and 


generals near her who were arrayed in sumptuous apparel, who 
were horsemen mounted on horses. They were all chosen 
youths. When I saw that they were polluted; and that both 
took the same course; and that this one was adding to her 
fornication ; for upon seeing men pourtrayed on the. wall, the 
pictures of the Chaldeans drawn to the life with a pencil, hav- 
ing their loins girded with embroidered girdles, and deep dyed 
turbans on their heads; the majestic countenance of all resem- 
bling that of the Chaldees of the land of her nativity ; she be- 
came attached to them by the sight of her eyes, and sent mes- 
sengers to them to the land of Chaldea. And the sons of Ba- 
bylon came to her, lay with her, and polluted her in whore- 


dom. And when she was polluted by them, though her mind 


was alienated from them, still she discovered her whoredom 
and exposed her shame. So my mind became alienated from 
her as it had been from her sister. As thou hast multiplied 
thy whoredom, to call into remembrance the days of thy youth, 

in which thou didst play the harlot in Egypt, and though con- 

nected with the Chaldeans, men of beastly lust, hast looked 
back to the transgressions of thy youth—to what thou didst 
in the stew of Egypt where thou wast first deflowered. There- 
fore O Ooliba, thus saith the Lord, Behold I will raise up 
against thee thy lovers from whom thy mind is alienated ; 
and I will bring them against thee on every side—the chil- 
dren of Babylon, even all the Chaldeans, Phakuk and Soue 
and Uchoue and all the Assyrians with them, chosen youths, 
leaders and generals, all men of high rank and renown, mounted 
on horses. And they shall come against thee from the north 
with chariots and wheeled carriages, and a multitude of peoples 
with bucklers and shields. And when a guard is set on thee 

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round about, I will give judgment before them and they shali 
punish thee by their judgments. And I will give a loose to 
my jealousy; and they shall deal with thee with furious wrath, 
they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears; and the remains of 
thee they shall hack with a sword. They shall take thy sons 
and thy daughters; and a fire shall devour the residue of thee. 
And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take those jewels ~ 
which are thy boast. And I will remove thine impieties which 
spring from thyself, and thy fornication which sprang from 
the land of Egypt; and thou shalt never lif up thine eyes to 
them, nor shalt thou any more remember Egypt. For thus 
saith the Lord, Lord, Behold 1 deliver thee into the hands of 
them whom thou hatest, and from whom thy mind is with- 
drawn; and they shall deal spitefully with thee, and take all 
those things for which thou hast laboured and toiled: and 
thou shalt be naked and in disgrace and the shame of thy 
whoredom shall be made public. Thine impiety and thy 
whoredom have brought these things on thee. By thy going 
a whoring after the nations, thou hast polluted thyself with 
their inordinate lusts. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sis- 
ter ; therefore I will put her cup into thy hands. 

Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt drink the cup of thy sis- 
ter, which is deep, and which is large, and which is foaming 
over, to cause complete intoxication, that thou mayst be filled 
with fainting—even that cup of astonishment, the cup of thy 
sister Samaria. Let her take this: and I will turn away her 
festivals and her new moons; for I the Lord have spoken, 
saith the Lord. 

Therefore thus saith the ἴλνα: Because thou hast forgotten 
and cast me behind thee, take thou the effects of thine impiety 
and of thy whoredom. . 

Again the Lord said to me, Son of man, wilt thou not 
arraign Oola and Ooliba, and announce to them their iniqui- 
ties? That they have committed adultery and there is blood 
on their hands? They have committed adultery with their idols; 
and caused their children whom they bore to me to pass 
through fire for them. And when they had done this to me, 
they polluted my holy things and profaned my sabbaths; for 


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when they had slaughtered their children to their idols, they 
went into my sanctuary to profane it. 

40 Now because they have acted thus in my house; and be- 
cause, forthe men who came from afar, to whom messengers 
had been despatched, thou didst immediately on their coming, 
anoint thyself with oil and paint thine eyes with stibium, and 

Al adorn thyself with sumptuous attire, and sit on a covered so- 
pha with a table set before it; and they were regaled with mine 

42 incense and mine oil, and joined in the harmonious song, even 
with men of the common herd who had come from the wil- 
derness; (though they had put bracelets on their hands and a 

43 crown of exquisite beauty on their heads; I said, surely they 
do not commit adultery with these! But she acted the harlot 

44, and they went in unto her: inthe same manner as they go in 
to a common woman, so did they go in unto Oola and to Ooli- 

45 bato commit iniquity) therefore these are righteous men and 
they will punish them with the punishment of an adulteress 
and with the punishment for blood. Because they are adulter- 

46 esses and there is blood on their hands, thus saith the Lord, 

᾿ς Lord, Bring upa multitude against them and expose them to 

47 tumult and rapine; and stone them with the stones of tu- 
multuous crowds; and stab them with their swords. Let their 
sons and their daughters be slain and their houses burned with 

48 fire, that I may remove impiety out of the land and that all 
women may take warning, and not commit the impieties which 

49 these have done. Thus shall your impiety be recompensed on 
you; and for your sins you shall receive retribution; and you 
shall know that I am the Lord. 


NXIV. XII. AGAIN in the ninth year, in the tenth month, 
on the tenth day of the month, a word of the Lord came to 
me, saying, 

2 Son of man write down for thyself for a day, from this day 
~ on which the king of Babylon hath determinately set himself 
3 against Jerusalem; even from this very day; and speak a para- 
ble against that provoking family, and thou shalt say to them, 
4, Thus saith the Lord, Set on the cauldron and pour water 

into it; and throw into it the pieces of meat, every choice piece, 
the flesh of the thigh and the shoulder separated from the 


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under them. It hath boiled and the bones have been sodden 
in it. Therefore thus saith the Lord, Ah! bloody city! a 
kettle, in which there is verdigrease in its very substance, and 
that verdigrease is not gone out of it. She hath brought it out 
on every member of her: no lot fell upon her. Because her 
blood is in the midst of her; I have ordered it to be poured 
out on asmooth stone: I have not poured it on the ground for 
the earth to cover it. That wrath may be kindled and ven- 
geance executed, I have ordered the blood to be poured out 
ona smooth stone, that it may not be concealed. 

Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will enlarge the pile, and 
heap on wood and cause the fire to burn, that the flesh may be 
consumed and the broth evaporated : and it shall stand on the 
coals that the brass may be heated red hot and melted in the 
midst of its impurity and its verdigrease quite destroyed; so 
that this its abundant verdigrease may not proceed from it. Its 
verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast 
polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be 
cleansed till I filled up my wrath? I the Lord have spoken. 
He shall come: and I will act. I will not defer; nor will I 
shew compassion. According to thy ways and according to 
thy lusts I will judge thee, saith the Lord, therefore I will 
judge thee according to thy blood guiltiness; aud I will judge 
thee according to thine inordinate lusts, O corrupt, infamous 
and very provoking city. 

Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of 
man; Behold I take from thee the desires of thine eyes with 
a stroke. Thou must not mourn, nor utter lamentation. Let 
sighing for blood and grief of loins be suppressed. Thy hair 
shall be platted on thy head and thy sandals shall be on thy 
feet. Thou must not receive comfort from their lips, nor eat 
funeral bread. 

So.I spoke to the people in the morning as he had order- 
ed me in the evening. And when I did in the morning as I 
was commanded, the people said to me, Why dost thou not 
tell us what these things mean which thou art doing? There- - 
upon I said to them, A word of the Lord came to me, say- 
ing, Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold 


συ. AV. EZEKIEL. 


T will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the 
desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are moved with 
compassion; and your sons and your daughters whom you 
22 left shall fall by the sword: and you shall do as I have done. 
You shall not receive comfort from their mouth nor eat fune- 
23 ral bread; your locks of hair shall be on your head, and your 
sandals on your feet; you shall neither utter lamentations nor 
shed tears; but shall pine away for your iniquities and exhort 
24. one another. And Ezekiel shall be for a sign to you, (accord- 
ing to all that he hath done you shall do when these things 
25 happen) and you shall know that Iam the Lord. And with 
regard to thee sonof man, will not this be the case? On the _ 
day when I take from them their strength—that which was 
their exultation and boast and the desire of their eyes and the 
26 pride of their soul—their sons and their daughters; on that: 
27 day one who escapeth shall come to thee to tell thee the news; 
on that day thy mouth shall be opened to him who escapeth. 
Thou shalt speak and no more be dumb and thou shalt be a 
sign to them; and they shall know that Iam the Lord. 
XXV. Again a word of the Lord came tome, saying, Son of 
2 man, set thy face against the children of Ammon and prophe- 
sy against them and thou shalt say to the children of Ammon, 
3 Hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, Because you 
exulted over my sanctuary ; because it was profaned and over 
the land of Israel because it was laid waste, and over the house 
4 of Juda, because they went into captivity; therefore behold I 
deliver you to the children of Kedem fora possession; and in 
their excursions they shall inhabit thee and pitch their tents in 
5 thee. They shall eat thy fruits and drink thy liquors. And I 
will make the city of Ammon feeding places for camels; and 
the land of the Ammonites a pasture for sheep; and you shall 
6 know that I am the Lord. For thus saith the Lord, Because 
thou didst clap thy hands and stamp with thy feet, and exult 
7 in thy soul over the land of Israel; therefore I will stretch 
forth my hand against thee, and deliver thee up for a spoil to 
the nations : and I will utterly destroy thee from among the 
peoples, and cause thee to perish out of the countries, and you 
-shall know that I am the Lord. 


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not the house of Israel and Juda be like all the nations? 
Therefore behold I will loosen the shoulder of Moab from 
his frontier cities, that beautiful country the house of Betha- 
simoth, at the head of the fountain of the city on the sea 
shore. I have set the children of Kedem over the Ammonites, 
I have given them to him for an inheritance, that there may be 
no remembrance of the Ammonites, and upon Moab I will 
execute vengeance; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord, Because Jdumea in executing ven- 
geance on the house of Juda gratified private resentment and 
executed the sentence with rigour. Therefore thus saith the 
Lord, I will also stretch forth my hand against Idumea, and-de- 
stroy out of it man and beast and make it a desolation. And. 
they who are driven out of Thaiman shall fall by the sword. 
And I will execute vengeance on Idumea by the hand of my 
people Israel who shall deal with Idumea according to mine 
indignation, and according to my wrath; and they shall know 
my vengeance saith the Lord. 

For the same cause, thus saith the Lord, Because the 
Philistines acted with revenge and with joy of heart heighten- 
ed the punishment to destroy utterly; therefore thus saith the 
Lord, Behold I will stretch forth my hand against the Philis- 
tines, and utterly exterminate the Cretans, and destroy the 
remnants which inhabit the sea coast, and inflict on them great 
punishments; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I 
execute my vengeance on them. 


XXXVI. XII. AGAIN it came to pass in the eleventh year 


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on the first of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, 
saying, 

Son of man, Because Sor hath said against Jerusalem, 
Aha! She is trodden down; the nations have destroyed her; 
she is turned over to me; she that was full is laid waste, 
therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sor, 
and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea 
cometh up with its waves. And they shall demolish the walls 
of Sor and break down thy towers; and I will brush away the | 
loose earth from it and make it a bare rock. It shall be a place 
to dry nets in the midst of the sea. As I have spoken, saith 


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the Lord, It shall indeed be a prey for the nations; and its 


daughters on the continent shall be slain with the sword : and. 
they shall know that I am the Lord. For thus saith the Lord, 
Behold against thee, Sor, I will bring from the North, Nabu- 
chodonosar king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horses and 
chariots and horsemen, and a great assembly of many nations. 
Thy daughters on the main land he will slay with the sword; 
and he will lay siege to thee and surround thee with works, 
and make a rampart against thee round about, with places for 
engines; and arrange his lances over against thee, and with his 
battle axes demolish thy walls and thy towers. By reason of 
the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee; and 
with the neighing of his horses and the rumbling of his cha- 


riot wheels thy walls shall shake when he entereth thy gates 


like one entering a city from the plain. With the hoofs of his 
horses all thy streets shall be trampled. He will slay thy peo- 
ple with the sword; and level to the ground the confidence of 
thy strength; and make a prey of thine army, and a spoil of 
thy wealth; and break down thy walls and demolish thy lovely 
houses; and thy stones and thy timbers and thy rubbish he 
will throw into the midst of the sea. And he will put an end 
to the multitude of thy musicians; and the sound of thy 
psalteries shall no more be heard. I will indeed make thee a 
bare rock. Thou shalt be a place for drying nets, thou shalt 
never be rebuilded any more; for I the Lord have spoken, 
saith the Lord. 

For thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Sov: At the sound of thy 
fall; at the groans of thy wounded, when the sword is drawn in 
the midst of thee, shall not the islands quake? Yes, from ther 
thrones will come down all the chiefs of the maritime nations, 
and they will take their crowns from their heads, and strip off 
their embroidered robes. They will be struck with consterna- 
tion and sit on the ground, and be in dread of their own de- 
struction and groan for thee. And they will take up a lamen- 
tation for thee and say to thee, *‘How art thou destroyed from 
the sea, O renowned city! which didst impress the terror of 
thee on all who inhabit its shores! The isles also will be terri- 
fied at the day of thy fall. For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When 
I make thee a desolate city, like cities never to be rebuilded, 


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when I bring up the abyss against thee; much water shall co- 


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the pit, to the people of old; and make thee dwell in the depths 
of the earth—in an everlasting desert, with them who go down 
to the pit; that thou mayst never be rebuilt nor rise again in 
the land of life. I will make thee a desolation; and thou shalt 
never come into existence again, saith the Lord, Lord. 


XXVII. Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, There- 
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say to Sor, which is situate at the entrance of the sea, the mart 
of nations from many isles, thus saith the Lord to Sor, thou 
saidst, ‘‘I have clothed myself with beauty.” In the heart of 
the sea thy sons clothed thee with beauty for Beelim. The ce- 
dars from Senir cutanto planks have been built into ships for 
thee; they took cypresses from Lebanon to make for thee taper- 
ing masts: from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. 

Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from 
the isles of the Chetians: cotton withembroidery from Egypt was 
the covering of thy bed. To add to thy glory, and that thou 
mightest clothe thyself with blue and purple, thy clothing came 
from the isles of Elisa. The inhabitants of Sidon were thy 
captains; and the Aradians were thy mariners; thine own wise 
men, Sor, who were in thee, were thy pilots. The elders of 
Biblii, even their wise men who were in thee, invigorated thy 
counsel. And allthe ships of the sea and all the mariners of 
the western world were in thy service. Persians and Lydians 
and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee 
shields and helmets. They increased thy glory. The Aradi- 
ans, the army on thy walls, were guards in thy towers; they 


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made thy beauty perfect. The Karchadians purchased of thee 
for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchan- 
dize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron 
and tin and lead. Hellas, even that whole country and those 
stretching beyond it, traded with thee in the souls of men and 
supplied thy market with vessels of brass. From the house of 
Thcegarma thy market was supplied with horses and horsemen. 
The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants: from the isles 
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thou didst supply them with thy merchandise, with slaves a 
part of thy exports from thy vast stock of wares, with stacte 
and embroideries from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chorchor. Ju- 
da also and the children of Israel traded with thee in the sale 
of wheat and myrrh and cassia; and for thy merchandises sup- 
plied thee chiefly with honey and oil and frankincense. Damas- 
cus was thy customer for thine abundant wares of all kinds, 
they had wine from Chelbon, so they paid for their purchases 
with wool from Miletus and with wine. From Asel thou wast 
supplied with manufactured iron, which was a part of thy mer- 
chandise by a circuitous trade. Daidan was a dealer with thee 
and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages. Arabia and 
all the chiefs of Kedar dealt with thee, and paid thee camels 
and lambs and rams for what they purchased of thee. The mer- 
chants of Saba and Ramma traded with thee with the choicest 
spiceries and precious stones; they gave gold also for thy mer- 
chandise. Charra and Chana also were thy customers and so 
were Assur and Charman: they supplied thy market with blue 
cloth and choice merchandise bound up in bales. Fleets of 
cypress ships were employed in thy trade. So with this multi- 
tude and with thy merchandise thou wast filled and deeply la- 
den in the heart of the sea. Into deep water thy mariners 
steered thee. In the midst of the sea the south wind hath 
wrecked thee. Thine armies, and the gains of thee and of thy 
factors, with thy mariners, and thy pilots, and thy coun- 
sellors, and thy factors and all thy warriors were on board of 
thee: and all this assemblage of thine which are in thee shall 
sink in the heart of the sea on the day of thy ruin. At the scream 
of thy voice thy pilots will be astounded. They who handle 
the oar and they on board ships will quit their vessels; and 
they who frequent the sea will stand on the land, and with 
their voice raise a mournful cry for thee, and scream bitterly 
and put earth on their heads and strew themselves with ashes, 
and their children will take up a lamentation for thee a peculiar 
song of woe for Sor-—‘“‘what immense wealth didst thou acquire 
from the sea! with thine abundance thou didst fill nations; and 
with thy traffic enrich all the kings of the earth. Now thou art 
overwhelmed in the sea; in deep water, thy merchandise, with 
all thy crew in thee. All thy mariners are fallen. For thee all 
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the inhabitants of the isles are in distress, and their kings are 


36 struck with amaze, and tears bedew their countenance. For 


thee the merchants of the nations express pity; thou art utter- 
ly destroyed and never to be any more.” 


XXVIII. Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, and 
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Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, “1 am a 
God.” “I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea.’” 
Nowas for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast 
set thy heart as the heart of aGod. Art thou wiser than Daniel? 
Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? Didst 
thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure 
for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? By thy 
great skill and thy trafic thou hast increased thy wealth; and 
with thy wealth thy heart is elated; therefore, Thus saith the 
Lord, Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God; for 
this, behold I will bring against thee strange ravagers from the 
nations, and they shall unsheath their swords against thee and 
against the beauty of thy wisdom; and they shall bring down 
thy beauty to destruction and trample thee down; and thou 
shalt die the death of wounded men in the heart of the sea. 
Wilt thou say, “am a God,” in the presence of them who 
are slaying thee? Thou indeed art but a man and not a God. 
Among a multitude of uncircumcised thou shalt die by the 
hand of strangers, for I have spoken, saith the Lord. 

Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 
take up a lamentation for the prince of ‘Tyre and say to him, 
Thus saith the Lord, Lord, thou wast an impression of resem- 
blance and a crown of beauty. In the delightful paradise of 
God thou wast born. Thou hast been adorned with every pre- 
cious stone, the sardis and topaz and emerald and carbun- 
cle and sapphire and jasper, and with silver and gold and the 
ligure and agate, and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and 
onyx; and hast filled thy treasuries and thy stores with gold. 
From the day-thou wast created thou wast with the cherub. On 
the holy mountain of God I placed thee, thou wast born in the — 
midst of sparkling stones. Thou in thy days wast spotless 
from the day thou wast created, until iniquities were found 
in thee. By reason of thine abundant traffic thou didst fill thy 


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- stores with iniquity and commit sins; therefore thou art cast 
out slain from the mountain of God; and from amidst the 
17 sparkling stones the cherub hath dragged thee. Thy heart was 
elated because of thy beauty; with thy beauty thine understand- 
» ing was perverted. For the multitude of thy sins I have dash- 
ed thee on the ground; in the presence of kings I have made 
thee a public example. For the multitude of thy sins and the 
iniquities of thy traffic I have defiled thy sanctuaries; and from 
the midst of thee I will bring outa fire which shall devour 
thee. And I will make thee like ashes on the ground, in the 
19 sight of all them who behold thee. And all that knew thee 
among the nations shall lament over thee. Thou art utterly de- 
stroyed and never to be any more. 
20 Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 
set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it and say, 
Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sidon, and I 
shall be glorified by thee; and thou shalt know that I am the 
Lord. When I execute judgments on thee, then shall I be hal- 
lowed by thee. There shall be blood and death in thy streets, 
and the victims of the sword shall fall in and around thee: 
24 and they shall know that I am the Lord. And there shall no 
more be in the house of Israel a pricking briar nor a grieving 
thorn, by reason of those around them, who despised them: and 
25 they shall know that I am the Lord. Thussaith the Lord, Lord, 
When I gather Israel from among the nations where they were 
scattered, 1 shall be hallowed by them even in the sight of the 
peoples and nations and they shall dwell in their land which I 
26 gave to my servant Jacob. And they shall dwell there secure- 
ly and shall build houses and plant vineyards: they shall in-. 
deed dwell securely when I have executed judgment on all 
who despised them—on all their neighbours around them; 
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XXIX. XIV. ΙΝ the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the 
first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, 

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt, and 
prophesy against him and against all Egypt; and say, Thus 

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which walloweth in the midst of his rivers, and saith, “These 

A rivers are mine and I made them.”? And I will put grapples in 

thy jaws, and cause the fishes of thy river to stick close to thy 

5 -fins; and I will drag thee out of the river, and give thee and 

all the fishes of thy river a sudden cast. On the face of the plain 
thou shalt fall and shalt not be gathered nor composed. To the 

6 beasts of the earth and the birds of the air I have given thee for 

food. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am 
the Lord. 
Because thou hast been a staff of reed to the house of Israel; 

7 when they took hold of thee with their hand thou didst break: 

even when every hand was clapping against them, and when 
they leaned on thee thou didst break and disjoint all their loin; 

8 therefore thus, saith the Lord, Behold I will bring a sword 

against thee and destroy out of thee man and beast. And the 

land of Egypt shall bea destruction and a desolation; and they 
shall know that I am the Lord. 

10 Because thou saidst, “‘ These rivers are mine; I made 
them ;”’ therefore behold I am against thee and against all thy 
rivers; and I will deliver up the land of Egypt to desolation 
and sword and destruction. From Magdolus and Syene even. 

11 to the borders of Ethiopia, no foot of man shall pass across it, 
nor shall a foot of beast traverse it ; and for forty years it shall 

12 not be inhabited. I will indeed make its land a desolation in 
the midst of a desolated land, and its cities, in the midst of de- 
solated cities, forty years. And I will scatter Kgypt 8 wien 
the nations, and disperse them through the countries. 

13 Thus saith the Lord, After forty years, I will gather the 

14 Egyptians from the nations where they were scattered ; and I 
will bring back the Egyptian captives, and settle them in the 
land of Pathora—in the land from which they were taken.— 

15 And it shall be the basest of all governments; it shall no more 
be exalted against the nations. For I will make them few and 
of little account, that they may not be great among the nations. 

16 And they shall no more be the confidence of the house of Is- 
rael, bringing iniquity into remembrance by their going after 
them ; and they shall know that I am the Lord. 

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me, saying, Son of man, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon» 
18 hath caused his army to undergo hard service at Tyre. Every 
head is bald and every shoulder peeled; and he and his army 
employed against Tyre, have received no wages ; though they 
19 have undergone hard service against it. Thus saith the Lord, 
Behold I will give to Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon the 
land of Egypt. And he shall make a prey ofits prey, and a spoil 
20 of its spoil. And it shall be wages for his army. For his service 
which he hath performed against Tyre, I have given him the 
21 land of Egypt. Thus saith the Lord, Lord; In that day there 
shall spring up a horn for the whole house of Israel, and I will 
give thee an open mouth in the midst of them, and they shall 
know that I am the Lord. 
XXX. Again a word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of 
3 man prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, Alas! alas ! the 
day; for the day of the Lord is near. A cloudy day! it shall 
4 be the end of nations. A.sword shall come upon the Egyp- 
tians; and there shall be consternation in the land of Ethiopia; 
and the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and its foundations shall 
be shaken. Persians and Cretans and Lydians and Libyans 
and all the mixed people, and some of the children of my co. 
6 venant shall fall in it by the sword. The fortresses of Egypt 
shall fall, and down shall come the pride of her strength, from 
Magdolus even to Syene—by the sword they shall fall in it, saith 
7 the Lord. And it shall be desolate in the midst of desolated 
countries ; and their cities shall be in the midst of desolated 
cities. And they shall know that I am the Lord; when I send 
a fire against Egypt, and all her helpers are trodden down.— 
In that day swift messengers will go forth to cause Ethiopia 
to vanish: and there shall be consternation among them in- 
the day of Egypt. For behold it is come. 
10 Thus saith the Lord, Lord, I will indeed destroy the 
multitude of the Egyptians by the hand of Nabuchodonosar 
king of Babylon—of him and his people. They are ravagers 
sent from nations to destroy a land; and they shall all un- 
sheath their swords against Egypt; and the land shall be fill- 
12 ed with the slain. And I will dry up their rivers and destroy 
the land, and the fulness thereof by the hands of strangers, I 
the Lord have spoken. For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When 


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I have destroyed the nobles from Memphis, and the chiefs of | 
Memphis out of the land of Egypt, and they shall be no more; 


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Tanis and execute vengeance on Diospolis. And I will pour . 
out my wrath on Sais, the strength of Egypt, and utterly de- 
stroy the multitude of Memphis: and I will send a fire against 
Egypt, and Syene shall be confounded; and at Diospolis there 
shall be a breach; and water shall gush out. The young men of 
Heliopolis and Boubaste shall fall by the sword, and the women 
shall go into captivity. And at Taphnis the day will be darken- 
ed, when I there break the sceptres of Egypt, for the pride of 
her strength shall be destroyed there : and a cloud shall cover 
her; and her daughters shall be carried away captives. Thus 
will I execute judgment on Egypt, and wera shall know that 
I am the Lord. 

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, 
on the seventh of the month, a worg of the Lord came to me, 
saying, Son of man, I bruised the arms of Pharao king of 
Egypt; and behold he hath made no supplication for a cure 
to be given, for a poultice to be applied; for strength to be 
given to handle a sword, Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, 
Behold I am against Pharao king of Egypt; and I will break 
his strong and extended arms, and cause the sword to drop 
from his hand. And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and 
disperse them through the countries. And 1 will strengthen 
the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his 
hand, and he shall wield it against Egypt, and. make a prey 
of his prey, and a spoil of his spoil. I will indeed strengthen 
the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharao shall 
be enfeebled; and they shall know that lam the Lord. When 
I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, he shall 
wield it against the land of Egypt. And I will scatter Egypt 
among the nations, and disperse them through the roomed 
and they shall all know that I am the Lord. 


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first day of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, 
Son of man say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude, 
to whom hast thou likened thyself for thy loftiness ? Lo to ~ 
Assur! he was a cypress on Libanus. Beautiful with branches 


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and lofty in stature. His top was among the clouds. Water 
nourished him. The deep made him lofty. It brought its 
streams about his roots, and sent forth its rills to all the trees 


of the plain. By reason of this he was exalted in greatness 


above all the trees of the plain, and by the plentiful supply of 
water his branches spread. Among his boughs all the birds 


of the air built their nests; and under his branches all the 


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beasts of the field brought forth their young; and all the mul- 
titude of nations dwelt in its shade. He was beautiful in his 
height by the multitude of his branches, because his roots 
shot out into abundance of water. Even the cypresses such 
as were in the paradise of God and the pines were not to be 
compared with his shoots, nor were the fir trees comparable 
to his branches. Not a tree in the garden of God was equal 
to him in beauty, on the account of the multitude of his 
branches; therefore, the trees of God’s delicious paradise en- 
vied him on that account. But thus saith the Lord, Because 
thou wast of great magnitude, therefore thou hast shot up thy 
top among the clouds. Now when I saw that he was lifted up, 
I delivered him into the hands of the chief of nations, who 
accomplished his destruction. Strangers, merciless ravagers 
from nations destroyed him. They felled him on the moun- 
tains and his branches fell in all the vallies, and his shoots 
were trampled down in every field of the earth; and all the 
tribes of the nations came down from their shade, and levelled 
him to the ground. Upon his ruins all the birds of the air rest- 
ed themselves; and all the wild beasts of the earth came 


against his shoots; that none of the trees by the water might 


be exalted by their greatness: though they had shot up their 
top among the clouds, yet none of these water drinkers stood 
in their height before them; they were all delivered up to 
death, to the depth of the earth, among the children of men, to 
them who go down to the pit. Thus saith the Lord, On the day 
he went down to Hades, the abyss mourned for him. I stayed 
its streams and restrained the abundance of water. For him 
Libanus covered itself with darkness; all the trees of the field 
were grieved for him. At the sound of his fall the nations were 
shaken. When he was. pressed down to the mansion of the 
dead, with them who go down into the pit; all the trees of the 


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garden comforted him in the earth—even the choice trees of 
17 Libanus, all that drink water; for they also went down with 
him to the mansion of the dead, among them who were vic- 
tims of the sword; and his seed—they who dwelt under his 
18 shade were in the middle of their life destroyed. To whom- 
soever thou hast been likened, down with thee, and be pressed 
low with the trees of pleasure into the depth of the earth. In 
the midst of the uncircumcised thou shalt lie, with them who 
are the victims of the swords. Thus shall it be with Pharao 
and the multitude of his strength, saith the Lord, Lord. 
XXXII. Now it came to pass in the tenth year, in the tenth 
month, on the first day of the month, that a word of the Lord 
2 came to me, saying, Son of man, take up a funeral song for 
Pharao king of Egypt, and thou shalt say to him, To the lion 
of nations thou hast been likened, but thou art like a dragon 
which is in the sea. Thou hast harried thy rivers and troubled 
3 the water with thy feet, and trampled thy rivers. Therefore 
thus saith the Lord, I will spread for thee the nets of many 
4 peoples, and drag thee up with my grapple. And I will lay 
thee extended on the land. The plains shall be filled. And I 
will cause all the birds of the air to settle on thee and glut all 
5 the beasts of the earth. I will cast thy flesh on the mountains 
6 and fill them with thy blood: and the earth shall be drenched 
with the torrents from thee. By reason of the abundance of 
thee on the mountains, I will fill the vallies with parcels of thee. 
7 And in the act of extinguishing thee I will cover heaven and 
darken the stars thereof: I will veil the sun with a cloud and the 
8 moon shall not give her light: all that give light in the heaven 
shall be dark over thee; and I will overspread the earth with 
darkness, saith the Lord, Lord, and vex the heart of many 
peoples. ret | 
9 | When I bring thy captivity to the nations—to a land which 
10 thou hast not known; then shall many nations groan for thee: 
and their kings will be struck with horror, when my sword is 
brandished before their faces, expecting their own ruin from the 
11 day of thy downfall. For thus saith the Lord, the sword of the 
12 king of Babylon shall come upon thee. With the swords of gi- 
ants I will overthrow thy strength. They are all ravagers from 
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and all her strength shall be trampled down. And I will de- 
stroy all her cattle from her great water; and the foot of man 
shall no more trouble it, nor shall a hoof of cattle trample it. 
Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their streams shall 
glide like oil, saith the Lord. When I have devoted Egypt to 
destruction, and the land is wasted with the fulness thereof— 
When I have scattered all its inhabitants, then they shall know 
that I am the Lord. It is a song of woe and thou shalt sing it 
mournfully, and the daughters of the nations shall bewail 
Egypt, and over all her strength pour forth this plaint, saith the 
Lord, Lord. 

Again in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the first 
month a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 
sing a song of woe over the strength of Egypt, when the nations 
shall thrust down her daughters—shall thrust them down dead 
to the depth of the earth—to them who are going down into 
the pit; in the midst of the sword’s victims they shall fall with 
him. 

When all his power shall be laid to rest; then will the giants 
say to thee, “Down with thee into the lowest pit! excel whom 
thou mayst, down with thee, and be laid with the uncircumcis- 
ed, in the midst of the victims of the sword.” There lieth Assur 
and all his assembly; all the victims of the sword are laid there; 
and their sepulture is in the deep pit; and around his tomb 
is his assembly—all the slain who fell by the sword, who made 
themselves dreaded in the land of life. 

There lieth Ailam with all his host around his tomb—all 
the slain who fell by the sword, and went down uncircumcised 


to the depth of the carth: having made themselves dreaded in 


the land of life, they have received their punishment with them 
who go down to the pit amidst the slain. 

There are deposited Mosoch and Thobel, each with all 
his host around his tomb—all his slain, all uncircumcised, 
slain with the sword. Having made themselves dreaded in the 
land of life they are laid with the giants who fell of old; who 
went down in their armour to the mansion of the dead, and 
had their swords placed under their heads; but their iniquities 
were on their bones; because they were the terror of all during 


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cumcised, with them who are the victims of the sword. 
There have been laid the princes of Assur: they, who gave 
its strength to the wounding sword, are themselves laid to rest 
with the slain—with them who go down into the pit. There 
lie the chiefs of the north, all the generals of Assur, who de- 
scending wounded, are with their terror and their strength, laid 
to rest, uncircumcised with the slain of the sword: and have 
borne their punishment with them who go down to the pit. 
These king Pharao shall see and be comforted for all his host, 
saith the Lord, Lord. Because I have spread the terror of him 
over the land of life; therefore he shall be in the midst of the 
uncircumcised, with the slain of the sword—even Pharao and 
all his multitude with him, saith the Lord, Lord. 


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ing, Son of man speak to the children of thy people and thou 
shalt say to them, With regard to a land on which Iam about 
to bring a sword, when the people of that land take a man, one 
of themselves, and make him their watchman; if he upon see- 
ing the sword coming against the land, sound the trumpet and 
warn the people; and he who heareth the trumpet doth not take 
warning; and the sword cometh and cutteth him off; his blood 
shall be on his own head. Because upon hearing the sound of 
the trumpet he did not take warning; his blood shall be upon 
himself; for had he taken warning he might have saved his 
life. But if the watchman, upon seeing the sword coming, 
doth not sound the trumpet, and the people are not warned, 
and the sword cometh and taketh the life of any of them; that 
person is taken off because of his iniquity; but his blood I will 
require at the watchman’s hands, 

Now, as for thee son of man, I have made thee a watch- 
man to the house of Israel, therefore thou shalt hear a word 
from my mouth. When I say to the sinner, Thou shalt die : 
if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that 
unrighteous man shall die for his iniquity ; but his blood I 
will require at thy hand. But if thou forewarn the wicked οἵ 
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Now son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have 


us; and in them we are pining away; how then can we live? 


-Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord, I desire not the death 


of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from his way 
and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your way. Why do you die, 
O house of Israel. 


-. Say to the children of thy people, The righteousness of a 


righteous man will not save him on the day when he goeth 
astray. Nor shall the iniquity of a wicked man bring ruin on 
him, on the day when he turneth away from his iniquity. 
(a) What! cannot a righteous man be saved. Ὁ 
(b) When I have spoken to the righteous, if he, trusting 

to his righteousness, shall commit iniquity, none of his righte- 
ous acts shall be remembered; for the iniquity which he hath 
done, even for it he shal! die. And when I say to the wicked, 
Thou shalt die: if he turn from his sin and execute judg- 
ment and justice and restore a pledge and make compensation 
for acts of rapine and walk in the statutes of life without 
committing injustice, he shall live and not die. None of his 
sins which he committed shall be remembered. Because he 
hath executed judgment and justice, for this he shall live. 

Now will the children of thy people say, The way of the 
Lord is not straight? It is their own way which is not straight. 
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness 
and shall commit iniquities, for them he shall die. And when 
the sinner turneth away from his iniquity and shall execute 
judgment and justice, for them he shall live. Yet this is what 
gave occasion to your saying, The way of the Lord is not 
straight. I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one ac- 
cording to his ways. 


XVI. NOW it came to pass in the twelfth year of our cap- 
tivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth of the month, that one 
who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, The 
city is taken. Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me 


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the evening before he arrived, and had opened my mouth. So. 
when he came to me in the mornmg my mouth was opened 
and no more shut. And a word of the Lord came to me, say- 
ing, Son of man, they who dwell in the waste places in the 


‘land of Israel, say, Abraham was asingle person, yet he had 


this land, now we are many; to us this land is given fora pos- 


} session. Therefore say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, 
‘As I live, they who dwell in the wastes shall fall by the sword; 


and they in the open country shall be delivered to the wild 
beasts of the field for food: and those in walled towns and 
those in caves I will destroy with pestilence and I will make 
the land a desert. And the pride of its strength shall be de- | 


‘stroyed, and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate by rea- 
-son of none passing through it. And they shall know that I 


am the Lord. For I will make their land a desert and it shall 
be wasted, because of all their abominations which they have 


‘committed. 


Now son of man, with regard to these children of thy peo- 
ple who speak of thee by the walls and in the porches of their 
houses, they indeed speak to one another, saying, “ Let us as- 
semble and hear what come from the Lord.” They come to 
thee as people assemble; and they sit before thee and hear 
thy words, but will not do them, because there 15 ἃ lie in their 
mouth, and their heart goeth after their pollutions; therefore 


thou art to them like the sound of a tuneful psaltery: they 


will hear thy words, but will not do them: but when they 


‘come to pass they will say, “Lo! they are come "ἢ And they 


will know that there was a prophet among them. 


XXXIV. XVII. AGAIN a word of the Lord came to me, 


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saying, Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel : 
prophesy and say to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, 


Ὁ Shepherds of Israel ! Do shepherds feed themselves? Do not 


the shepherds feed their flocks? Behold you devour the milk 
and clothe yourselves with the fleeces, and that which is fat 


you slatighter; but my flock you do not feed. You have not. 


strengthened the weak, nor cured the diseased. That which was 
bruised you have not bound up, nor brought back that which. 
was going astray; nor have you searched for that which was 


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Jost: but you have wearied out the strong with toil, so that my 
flock is dispersed for want of shepherds, and is become a prey 
to all the wild beasts of the field. On every mountain and on 


‘every high hill my sheep are scattered, and dispersed over the 


face of the earth; and there is none who seeketh or bringeth 
them back. Therefore, O shepherds, hear a word of the Lord! 
As I live, saith the Lord, Because my flock is become a prey, 
and my sheep are become meat for all the wild beasts of the 
field, beyond what they would be were there no shepherds; 
and the shepherds have not looked out for my sheep, and the 
shepherds have fed themselves and have not tended my sheep; 
Therefore, O shepherds, thus saith the Lord, Lord, behold I 
am against the shepherds; and I will exact my sheep out of 
their hands, and discharge them from feeding my sheep: and 
these shepherds shall no longer feed them. I will rescue my 
sheep out of their mouth, that they may be no longer food for 
them. For thus saith the Lord, Lord, Lo! I myself will seek 
my sheep and watch over them. As a shepherd searcheth for 
his flock when mist and murky air overspread his scattered 
sheep: so will I diligently seek my sheep, and bring them from 
every place, where they have been dispersed in the day of mist 
and murky darkness. And I will lead them out from among 
the nations, and gather them from the countries, and bring 
them into their own land, and feed them on the mountains of 
Israel, and in the vales and in all the habitable part of the land. 
I will feed them im good pasture. On the lofty mountain of 
Israel shall be their folds; there they shall lie down and rest there 
in luxurious ease, and be fed in a rich pasture on the moun- 
tains of Israel. I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will 
give them repose, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 
Thus saith the Lord, Lord, I will seek the lost, and bring 
back the stray; and bind up the bruised and strengthen the 
weak: and I will watch the strong, and feed them with judg- 
ment. And as for you sheep, thus saith the Lord, Lord, 
Behold I will judge between sheep and sheep; rams and he 
goats. Was it not enough for you, that you fed in a rich pas- 
ture, but you must tread down the leavings of your pasture 
with your feet? Or that you have drunk of the standing water, 
but you must trouble the residue with your fect? So that my 


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sheep fed on the tramplings of your feet, and drank the water - 
which your feet had muddied. Therefore thus saith the Lord, 
Lord, Behold I will judge between the strong sheep and the 
weak. You have pushed with your sides and your shoulders, - 
and have butted with your horns and bruised all the weak: but 
I will save my sheep and they shall no more be for a prey; 
and I will judge between ram and ram. And I will set up over 
them one shepherd who shall feed them, even my servant Da- 
vid, who shall be their shepherd: and I the Lord will be their 
God; and David shall be chief among them. I the Lord have | 
spoken; and with this David I will make a covenant of peace, 
and remove the wild beasts entirely out of the land; so that 
they may dwell in the desert and sleep in the woods. And 1. 
will place them around my mountain, and give them the rain— 
the rain of blessing: and the trees of the plain shall yield their 
fruit; and the earth shall yield its increase; and they shall dwell 


in their land securely; And know that Iam the Lord, when I 


have broken their yoke: and I will rescue them out of the hand 
of them who enslaved them, and they shall no more be a prey 
to the nations, nor shall the wild beasts of the earth any more 
devour them, so they shall dwell secure and none shall make 
them afraid. I will indeed raise up for them a plant of peace, 
and they shall no more be consumed with famine in the land; 
nor shall they any more bear the revile of nations; and they shall 
know that I am the Lord their God, and that they are my pco- 


ple. O house of Israel, saith the Lord, Lord, you are my 
sheep, even the sheep of my flock, and I, the Lord, am your 


God, saith the Lord, Lord. 


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saying, Son of man, set thy face against the mountain. of Seir, 
and prophesy against it and say to it, ‘Thus saith the Lord, 
Lord, Behold ἣν am against thee, mountain of Seir; and I will 
stretch forth my hand against thee, and make thee a desert and 


4 thou shalt be desolate. And I will make a devastation among 


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thy cities, and thou shalt be a desert and shalt know that I am 


the Lord. Because thou hast been a perpetual enemy and didst 


deceitfully lie in wait for the house of Israel—hast been asword. - 
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tremities; therefore as I live, saith the Lord, Lord, as thou 


hast sinned unto blood, blood shall pursue thee. And I will 
make the mountain of Seir an entire desert; and I will destroy 
from it men and cattle, and fill with the wounded thy hills and 
thy vallies: and in all thy plains, the victims of the sword shall fall 
in thee. I will make thee a perpetual desolation, and thy cities 
shall no more be inhabited, and thou shalt know that Iam the 
Lord. Because thou saidst, “The two nations and the two 
countries shall be mine, and I will possess them, though the 
Lord is there.” Therefore, as I live saith the Lord, I will deal 
with thee according to thine enmity, and be made known to 
thee, when I judge thee; and thou shalt know that I am the 
Lord. I have heard the sound of thy revilings; because thou 
saidst, “The waste mountains of Israel are given us to be de- 
voured,” and didst utter swelling words against me with thy 
mouth; I heard them: therefore thus saith the Lord, to the joy 
of the whole land I will make thee a desert. Thou mountain 
of Seir shalt be a desert; and all Idumea shall be destroyed; 
and thou shalt know that I the Lord am their God. 


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mountains of Israel, and say to the mountains of Israel, Hear 
a word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, Lord; For as much 
as against you the enemy said, ‘‘Aha! these everlasting deserts 
are become our possession;”’ therefore prophesy and say, Thus 
saith the Lord, Lord, For as muchas you have been despised 


_ and hated by them around you, by reason of your being a 


possession for the relics of nations; and you are become a by- 
word and scoff to the nations: therefore, O mountains of Isra- 
el, hear a word of the Lord, Thus saith the Lord, to the moun- 
tains and the hills, and to the brooks and vallies, even to the 
waste and desolate places, and to the cities which have been ut- 
terly forsaken; as they are become a prey and a haunt for the 
remnants of nations around; Therefore thus saith the Lord, 
Lord, In the fire of my wrath I have spoken against these rem- 
nants of nations and against all _Idumea: Because they have with 
joy distributed this land of mine among themselves for a pos- 
session, undervaluing lives that you might be a waste for prey; 
therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the 
mountains and hills and to the vales and forests, Thus saith the 


Ch. XXXVI. EZEKIEL. 


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much as you have borne the reproach of the nations; therefore 
I will lift up my hand against the nations around you; they 
shall bear their own dishonour: but your grapes and your 
fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall be eaten by my people. Be- 
cause they have confident hopes of coming—because, lo! I 
am over you, and I will watch over you; therefore you shall 
be cultivated and sown: and upon you I will multiply men, 
even the whole house of Israel; and the cities shall be rebuilt 
and the wastes inhabited: and upon you I will multiply men 
and cattle, and cause you to be inhabited as in your former 
state. And I will deal kindly with you as I did in times of 
old; and you shall know that I am the Lord. And I will cause 
men, my people Israel, to increase upon you; and they shall in- 
herit you, and you shall be a possession for them, and shall no 
more be without a succession of children from them. 

Thus saith the Lord, Lord, For as much as they said of 
thee, ‘“Thou art a devourer of men, and art bereft of thy na- 


| tion,” Therefore thou shalt no more devour men nor make thy 


nation childless, saith the Lord, Lord. And the revile of na- 
tions shall no more be heard against you, nor shall you any 
more bear the reproaches of peoples, saith the Lord, Lord. 
Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, 
when the house of Israel dwelt in their land, they polluted it 
with their way and with their idols and with their impurities; and 
their way was in my view as the uncleanness of a woman in 
a state of separation; therefore I poured out my wrath against 
them, and scattered them through: the nations, and dispersed 
them through the countries: according to their way and accord- 
ing to their sin I jydged them. And when they went to the na- 


tions, wherever they went they profaned my holy name, by say- 
ing that they were the people of the Lord and had come from 


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‘his land; and that I had spared them for the sake of that holy name 
᾿ς ofmine, which they, the house of Israel, profaned among the 


nations wherever they went. Therefore say to the house of 


- Israel, Thus saith the Lord, I deal thus with you, not for your 


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sakes, O house of Israel, but only for the sake of my holy 
name, which you have profaned among the nations wherever 
you went. For I will hallow my great name which hath been 


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profaned, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and 


the nations shall know that I.am the Lord, when I am hallow- 
ed by you before their eyes. When I take you from among the 
nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and bring 
you into your own land; then I will sprinkle upon you pure 
water, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and 
from all your idols; and when I have cleansed you, I will 
give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: 1 will take 


away the stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a heart of 


flesh: And I will put my spirit in you, and cause you to walk 
in my statutes, and to keep my judgments and practise them. 
And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; 
and you shall be my people and I will be your God. And I will 
save you from all your impurities. And I will call for corn 
and multiply it: and no more send famine among you. And I 


_ will multiply the fruit of the trees and the products of the field; 


that you may no more bear the reproach of famine among the 
nations. ‘Then will you call to remembrance your evil ways, 
and your devices which were not good; and in their sight be 
grieved for your iniquities and your abominations. It is not 
for your sakes that I do this, saith the Lord, Lord. This you 
must needs know. Blush and be ashamed for your ways, O 
house of Israel. 

Thus saith Adonai the Lord, when I have cleansed you 
from all your iniquities, I will cause your cities to be rebuilded 
and the desolate places shall be inhabited, and the land which 
was a waste shall be tilled. For as much as it was a waste in 


the sight of all who passed by; therefore they will say, ‘“This 


land which was a waste is become like a paradise, and the 
waste, ruined and demolished cities are become places of 
strength;” and the nations which may be left around you shall 
know, that I the Lord have rebuilt the ruined cities, and plant- 


- ed the grounds which were a waste. I the Lord have spoken 


and J will perform. Thus saith Adonai the Lord, Still that they 
may do this, the house of Israel must seek me.—I will multi- 
ply them like a flock, the men like holy flocks, like the flocks 
of Jerusalem at her festivals. So shall the wasted cities be fill- 
ed with flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the 
Lord. 


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Lord led me out in spirit and set me in the midst of a plain 
which was full of human bones. And he led me all around 
them. And lo! there was an immense quantity on the surface 
of the plain, and they were very dry. And he said to me, Son 
of man, shall these bones revive? Whereupon I said, Lord, 
Lord, thou knowest such things. 

Then he said to me, Prophesy concerning these bones 
and say to them, Ye bones which are dry, hear a word of the 
Lord, Thus saith the Lord to these bones, Behold I will 
bring upon you a breath of life; and upon you I will lay si- 
news ; and 1 will bring flesh on you and stretch skin over you, 
and put my breath in you and you shall live: and εκ shall 
know, that I am the Lord. 

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and it came to 
pass that, when I had prophesied, behold there was a tremu- 
lous motion and it brought the bones together, every one to 
its proper place. And I beheld and lo! sinews and flesh were 
grown upon them, and skin covered them, but there was no 
breath in them. 

Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, Son 
of man and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord, From the 
four winds, come and blow on these dead and let them live. 
So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath came into 
them and they became alive and stood ὁ on wines feet, an ex- 
ceeding great multitude. | 

Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Sots of man, these 
bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, ‘ Our 
bones are become dry. Our hope-is gone. We are wasted to 
a shadow.” Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, 
Behold I will open your graves; and bring you up out of 
your tombs and bring you into the land of Israel, and aa shall 
know that Iam the Lord. 

When I have opened your graves that I may bring up my 
people out of the graves I will then put my breath in you and 
you shall live. And I will settle you in your own land; and 
you shall know that I am the Lord. I have spoken νάνι I will 
perform, saith the Lord. : 


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Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, Son of 
man, take thee a staff and write thereon, ‘Juda and the chil- 
dren of Israel who adhere to him,’ Then thou shalt take 


thee another staff and write thereon, ‘‘ Kor Joseph the staff 


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of Ephraim and all the children of Israel who adhere to him.” 
Then thou shalt join them one to the other to be bound 
together into one staff for thee, and they shall be in thy hand. 
And when the children of thy people say to thee, Why dost 
thou not tell us, what thou meanest by these ? Then thou 
shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will take the 
tribe of Joseph which is administered by Ephraim and the tribes 
of Israel which adhere to him, and add them to the tribe of 
Juda, and they shall be one sceptre in the hand of Juda. And 
while the staves on which thou hast written shall be in thy 
hand before them, thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the 
Lord, Lord, Behold I will take the whole house of Israel from 
among the nations, whither they went; and I will gather them 
from all those around them, and bring them to the land of 
Israel, and make them a nation in my land even on the moun- 
tains of Israel. And there shall be one chief over them. And 
they shall no more be two nations; nor shall they any more 
be split into two kingdoms, that they may no more be pol- 
luted with their idols. And I will deliver them from all their 
iniquities and purify them from all their sins which they have 
committed. And they shall be my people, and I the Lord will 
be their God. And my servant David shall be chief among 
them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they 
will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and prac- 
tise them, therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs 
which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt 
there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only 
chief forever. And I will make a covenant of peace with them. 
It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will 
place my sanctuary in the midst of them forever, And my 
habitation shall be among them ; and I will be their God and 
they shall be my people. And the nations shall know that I 
am the Lord who sanctifieth them, by my sanctuary being in 
the midst of them forever. 


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me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, and the land 
of Magog, the prince of Ros, Mesoch and agit and pro- 
phesy against him and say to him, 

᾿ς Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, 
prince of Ros, Mesoch and Thobel. And I will ‘patel thee 


and all thine army, horses and horsemen all clad with coats of 


mail—a great assembly with shields and helmets and swords, 
Persians and Ethiopians and Libyans, all armed with helmets 
and shields ; Gomer and all those around him, the house of 
Thogarmar, from the extreme north, with all around him and 

many nations with thee. Be prepared and make thyself ready, 
thou and thy multitude assembled with thee; for thou shalt be to 
me for a vanguard. After many days he will be ina state of pre- 
paration, and in the last of years he will begin his march, and 
come into the land which is withdrawn from the sword—the 
land of them who have been collected from many nations, to 
the land of Israel, which had been made an entire desert.— 
When he from nations hath begun his march, they will be 
all dwelling in peace. hen thou wilt come up like rain, and 
advance like a cloud to cover the land. When thou shalt be 
with all thy bands around thee, and many nations with thee ; 
(Thus saith the Lord, Lord,) In that day things will come 
into thy heart, and thou wilt form wicked devices and say, 
“T will go up against an abject land: I shall come upon them 
who are living at ease, and dwelling in peaceful security—all 
inhabiting a land in which there is not a walled town, and who 
have neither bars nor gates; to take prey and to gather their 
spoils, by turning my hand against this wasted country which 
is re-settled, and against a nation gathered together from many 
nations who have gotten wealth and inhabit the navel oF ies 
earth.” 

Saba and Daidan and the merchants of Carthage, ain all 
their colonies, will say to thee, Thou art coming for prey, 
just to collect plunder and spoil: thou hast assembled thy 
troops to take silver and gold, to carry off cattle, to gather the 
spoil. Therefore prophesy Son of man and say to Gog, ‘Thus 
saith the Lord, At the time when my people Israel shall be - 
dwelling in peace, wilt thou not be roused? Yes; thou wilt 


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‘come from thy place, from the extremity of the north : thou 


and many nations with thee, all mounted on horses, a great 
assembly, and a mighty army, will indeed come up against 
my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: in the latter 
days I will bring thee up against my land, that all the na- 
tions may know me when Iam hallowed by thee in ther 
sight.— | 

Thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Gog, Thou art he of whom 
I have spoken in former times, by the ministry of my servants 
the prophets of Israel, that in these days and years I would 
bring thee up against them. But it shall come to pass on that 
day, on the day when Gog shall come against the land of 
Israel, my wrath shall come up, saith the Lord, Lord, and my 
zeal. In the fire of mine indignation, I have spoken, there 
shall indeed be on that day a great shock in the land of Israel. 
At the-presence of the Lord, the fishes of the sea shall be sha- 
ken, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the field, and 
all the reptiles which creep on the earth, and all the men on 
the face of the earth. And the mountains shall be rent to pieces, 
and the vallies shall sink down, and every wall shall fall to 
the ground. And for all this indeed I will call up terror saith 
the Lord: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.— 
And I will execute judgment on him, with pestilence and 
blood and with tempests of rain and hailstones ; and I will 
rain down fire and brimstone on him, and on all with him, 
even on the many nations with him. And I shall be magni- 
fied and hallowed and glorified; and made known in the 
sight of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. 


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and say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I am against thee, 
Gog, the prince of Ros, Mesoch and Thobel, and I will as- 
semble thee and lead thee and cause thee to come from the 
farthest north, and bring thee up to the mountains of Israel; 
and I will destroy thy bow from thy left hand and thine arrows 
from thy right; and overthrow thee on the mountains of Israel; 
and thou and all who are around thee shall fall; and the nations 
with thee shall be given to multitudes of birds, to all the 
feathered tribe, and to all the wild beasts of the field I have 
given thee to be devoured. On the open field thou shalt fall; 


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for I have spoken, saith the Lord. I will indeed send a fire 
against Gog and the isles shall be peaceably inhabited, and — 
they shall know that Iam the Lord. And my holy name shall 
be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my name 
which is holy shall no more be profaned; and the nations shall 
know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. Behold it is 
coming and thou shalt know that it will be, saith the Lord, 
Lord; this is the day of which Ihave spoken, when they who 
inhabit the cities of Israel shall come forth, and make fires with 
the arms—-with the shields and spears, and with bows and ar- 
rows,and hand-stavesand poles—even with these they shall make 
fires seven years: so that they shall not have occasion to take 
wood from the plains, nor to cut timber from the forests; but 
shall burn the arms only.And they shall plunder their plunder- 

ers; and spoil those who spoiled them, saith the Lord. And 
on that day I will give Gog a noted place—a burying place in 
Israel, the grave yard of strangers by the sea shore: and the 
slope of the valley shall be enclosed with a wall; and there 
Gog and all his multitude shall be buried; and it shall then be 
called the grave yard of Gog. For the house of Israel will bury 
them, that the land may be cleansed. During seven months the _ 

people of the land will be employed in burying them; and it _ 
shall be to them a memorable epoch, “ The day when he was 


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to traverse the land, and bury them who are left on the face of 
the ground, in order to purify it after the seven months. And 
they will make diligent search. And every one who traverseth 
the land, upon seeing a human bone, shall set up a mark near it; 
till the buriers bury it at Gai, the grave yard of Gog: (for the 
name of that city shall be called Grave Yard) thus shall the 
land be cleansed. 

Thou, therefore, son of man, say, Thus saith the Lord, Say 
to every winged bird, and to all the wild beasts of the: field, 
Assemble and come: assemble from all around to my sa- 
crifice, to the great sacrifice which I have made for you on 
the mountains of Israel; and you shall eat flesh and drink 
blood. You shall eat the flesh of giants and drink the blood of 
the princes of the earth. Rams and young bulls and he goats; . 
and all the bulls are well fatted. And you shall eat fat till you 


Ch. XL, EZEKIEL. 


‘are glutted, and drink blood to satiety, at my sacrifice which I 


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horses and horsemen, and with giants and every great war- 


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have prepared for you. And you shall be filled at my table with 


rior, saith the Lord. I will deed display my glory among you, 
and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have exe- 
cuted, and my hand which I have brought upon them. And 
the house of Israel shall know that Iam the Lord their God 
from this particular time and thence forward. And all the na- 
tions shall know, that the house of Israel were carried into 
captivity for their sins. Because they broke covenant with me 
therefore I turned away my face from them, and delivered 
them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the 
sword, According to their pollutions and according to their 
iniquities I dealt with them and turned away my face from 
them. Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will now bring back 
the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion on the house of 
Israel. And I will shew a zeal for my holy name, when they 
shall have suffered disgrace, for the rebellion of which they 
were guilty, when they dwelt peaceably in their own land. And 
there shall be none to make them afraid, when I have brought 
them back from among the nations and gathered them from 
the countries of the nations. So 1 shall be hallowed by them in 
the sight of the nations and they shall know that I the Lord 


am their God, when I manifest myself to them among the na- 


tions. And I will no more turn away my face from them, for 
as much as I have poured out my wrath on the house of Is- 
rael, saith the Lord, Lord. 


XL. XX. IN the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in 


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the first month, on the tenth day of the month; the fourteenth 
year after the city was taken; on that day the hand of the Lord 
came upon me and ina vision of God brought me to the land — 
of Israel and set me ona very high mountain, on which there 
was a building before me resembling a city. And he led me 
thither. Andlo! a man, whose appearance resembled that of 
sparkling brass; and in his hand a builder’s line and a measur- 
ing reed. And he stood at the gate. And the man whom I saw 
said to me, Son of man, Behold with thine eyes and hear with 
thine ears, and lay up in thy heart all that I shew thee; for thou 


Cho Xi. EZEKIEL. 


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art come hither that I may shew thee and that thou mayst point 
out to the house of Israel all that thou seest. 

Now behold there was a wall on the outside of the house 
all around; and the man had in his hand a reed of six cubits 
long by the cubit and hand breadth, so he measured the outer 
wall. The breadth equalled the reed and its height was equal 
to the reed. Then he went up by seven steps to the gate front- 
ing the east and measured the ailam of the gate which was 


‘one reed broad; and the 7héé was a reed long and a reed broad 


—and the atlam between the Theelath was six cubits. And the 
second 7hééwasa reedlong and a reed broad and the ailam was 
five cubits; and the third Zhéé was a reed long and a reed 
broad. And the ai/am of the gateway adjoining the az/am of the 
gate was eight cubits, and the ad/eus were two cubits. And 
with regard to the aliems of the gate on the inside and the 
Théés of the gate; the 7’héés were opposite to those without ; 

three on one side of the gate and three on the other, all of the 
same measure on this side and on that. And the az/ams on both 
sides were of the same measure. Then he measured the breadth 
of the door of the gateway ten cubits. But the breadth of the. 
gateway was thirteen cubits comprehending a border of a cu- 
bit on each side up to the face of the 7héés: and the Théés on 
each side were six cubits. Then he measured the gate from 
the outer wall of one Thee to the outer wall of the other Théé 
twenty. five cubits. This was gate upon gate. And the open 
part of the ailam of the gate on the outside was twenty cubits, 
the theims of the gate being round about; and including this 
vestibule of the gate on the outside and the vestibule of the 
gate on the inside the extent was fifty cubits. And all around 


_there were windows wide inwards and narrow outwards, for 


the theims and the inner ai/ams of this gate of the court: and 
on the windows for the ai/ams on the inside and on the ailams 
there were palm trees on this side and that. Then he led me 
to the court within; and lo! here were houses for those em- 
ployed in the holy service and ranges of columns all around 
the court; there were thirty houses, in the peristyles or ranges 
of columns and the porticos were behind the. gate; the lower 
row of columns being on a range with the gates. 


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24 


34 


Then he measured the breadth of this court from the in- 
ner vestibule of the outer gate to the outer vestibule of a gate 
facing the east, one hundred cubits. Then he led me north- 
ward, and lo! there was a gate to this outer court facing the 
north, and he measured it, both the length and the breadth; 
and the 7éé's three on each side and the aileus and the ailam- 
mons and its palm trees. And the measures were the same 
as those of the gate facing the east. Its length was fifty cubits 
and its breadth twenty five cubits. And its windows and the 
ailammons and its palm trees were the same as those of the 
eastern gate and the ascent to it was by seven steps. But the 
ailammons were on the inside. And there was a gate to the. 
inner court facing this northern gate in the same manner as the 
other did that to_the east. And he measured the court from 
gate to gate, one hundred cubits. 

Ἅ beh he led me southward, and lo! there was a gate 
facing the south, and he measured it, and the Zhéés and the 
aileus and the ailammons: and the measures were the same as 
those mentioned. And its windows and the ailammons around 
were the same as the windows of that other ailam. Its length 
was fifty cubits and its breadth twenty five cubits. And it 
had seven steps and an ailammon on the inside. It had also 
palm trees on each side over the aileus. And this gate was di- 
rectly opposite to the south gate of the inner court; and he 
measured the court from gate to gate and the breadth on the 
south side was a hundred cubits. 

Then he led me to the inner court of the gate facing the 
south, and he measured that gate, and its dimensions were the 
same as those mentioned, and its 7éés and its aileus and its 
ailammons were cf the like dimensions. And there were win- 
dows to it and to the ailammon round about. Its length was 
fifty cubits and the breadth of its ailam on the outer court was 
twenty five cubits, and there were palm trees over the aileus 
and it had eight steps. 

‘Then he led me to the gate facing the east, and measured 
itaccording to the same measures. And its Théés and itsaileus 
and its ailammons were of the measures above mentioned and 
it had windows and an ailammon round about. Its length was 


fifty cubits and its breadth twenty five cubits. And its ailam- 
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mon was on-the inner court, and there were palm trees over 
the aileu oneach side. And there were eight steps up to it. 

Then he led me to the north gate and measured it accord- 
ing to the same measures. And it had its 7Aées and its aileus 
and its ailammons and its windows around it, and an ailam- 
mon peculiar to it. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth 
twenty five cubits. And its ailammons were on the outer 
court, and there were palm trees to the aileu, on each side and 
eight steps up to it. Its houses for the priests, and its doors 
and its ailammon were at the second gate. At this gate 
facing the north there was a common sewer, that they might 
there kill the sin offerings and the trespass offerings. And be- 
hind the sewer of the burnt offerings there were at this gate 
facing the north, two tables facing the east. Also back of the 
second gate, and of the ailam of the gate were two tables on 
the east side. There were four on one side, and four on the 
other, back of this gate. Upon these they slay the burnt offer- 
ings. And over against these eight tables for the burnt offer- 
ings, there were four tables of hewn stone for the whole burnt 
offerings. The breadth of these was a cubit and a half, and 
the length two cubits and half, and the height one cubit. On 
these are to be laid the instruments with which they kill the 
whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices. They have therefore 
each of them a border of a hand breadth hewn on the inside 
all around; and over these tables there is a covering to defend 


them from the rain, and the heat of the sun. 
Then he led me into the inner court; and lo! there 1 were 


two apartments on: the inner court; one behind the north gate 
facing the south; and one behind. the south gate facing the 
north. And he said to me, This apartrment which faceth the 
south is for the priests, who keep the watch of the house, 
and that apartment facing the north is for the priests who have 
the charge of the altar, sees the sons of Sadduk, the only 
Levites who come near to the Lord to minister to him, T hen 
he measured this court which was a hundred cubits long and 
a hundred cubits broad, being four square. And the altar was 
on one side in front of the yal 

Then he led me to the ailam of the house and measured 
the ail of the ailam, five cubits the breadth,on each side and 


Ch. XLI. EZEKIEL. 


the width of the gateway was fourteen cubits ; and the cheeks 
of the door of the ailam were three cubits on the one side and 


49 three cubits on the other. And the length of the ailam was 


twenty cubits and the breadth twelve cubits; and the ascent 
up to it was by ten steps. And there were pillars on the ailam, 
one on the one side and one on the other. 


ΧΙ]. — Then he led me into the temple, and having measured the 
2 ailam to it, which was six cubits broad on each side, and the 


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breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the cheeks of the 
gateway five cubits on the one side, and five on the other, he 
measured the length of the temple forty cubits, and the breadth 
was twenty cubits. Now when he came to the inner apart- 
ment he measured the ail of the door two cubits, and the door 
six cubits, and the cheeks of the door seven cubits on each 
side. And he measured the length of the doors forty cubits, 
and the breadth twenty cubits, commensurate with the front 
of the temple. Andhe said, This is the Holy of Holies. Then 
he measured the wall of the house, six cubits, and the breadth 
of the gallery four cubits all around. And the galleries were 
three times thirty; one gallery over another twice. And there 
was a ledge in the wall of the house for the galleries all around 
to rest on, so as not to be fastened into the walls of the house, 
and consequently this ledge of the house being added to the 
upper gallery, all around the width of the upper gallery was 
enlarged, by an additional breadth equal to this ledge as one 
ascended from the lowermost to the second story, and from 
the second to the ‘third story. And the thrael of the house 
—the top of the galleries around, including the ledges, was 
a platform equal to the reed of six cubits. And the breadth 
of the wall on the out side of the gallery, was five cubits. — 
And the vacancies between the galleries of the house, and 
the chambers were in breadth twenty cubits, including the 
circumambient wall around the house. And the doors of the 
chambers were on the vacancy on the one side of the house 
facing the north, and on the other side of the house facing the 
south. Now the vacancy for lighting the house was five cu- 
bits all around. And the partition wall in front of this vacancy 
was towards the west, seventy cubits broad; its thickness all 
around being five cubits; and its length was ninety cubits. 


Ch. XLII. EZEKIEL. 


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And he measured over against the house a length of a hundred 
cubits. Now the vacancies and the partitions and their walls 
were a hundred cubits. And the breadth in front of the house 
mcluding the vacancies on the sides was a hundred cubits. And 
he measured the length of the partition wall over against the 
vacancy behind the house, and the length of it ae the 
vacancies on each side, was a hundred cubits. : 
Now the temple and the corners, and the outer ailam were 
arched; and the windows, the apertures for light through 
which they looked out from the three stories round about, were 
netted, and the parts adjoining were planked, both the floor and 
from the floor to the windows. And the windows in the three 
stories, had shutters which folded back, to give an opportunity 
of looking out at them. And near to the inner, and quite to the 
outer door, there were sculptured, on the whole wall round. 
about, both within and without, cherubims and palm trees be- 
tween cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces, a face 
of a man towards the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion 
towards the palm tree on the other side. ‘The house was sculp- 
tured all around. From the floor to the vaulted cieling there were 
cherubim and palm trees sculptured. And the sanctuary and 
the open temple were squares. In front of the Holies there 
was an appearance like that of an altar of wood. The height of 
it was three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth 
two cubits. And it had horns. And its base and its sides were 
of wood. And he said to me, This is the table which is in the 
presence of the Lord. And the temple had two doors, and the 
sanctuary had two doors. And these pairs of doors which folded 
back had two leaves a piece. And on these there was sculpture. 
Even upon the doors of the temple there were cherubim and 
palm trees like the sculpture of the Holies. And there were 
large beams on the front of the outer ailam, and windows nar- 
row without and wide inwards. 


XLH. Now when he had measured on this side and that to the 


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cieling of the ailam and to the galleries adjoining the house, 
he then led me into the inner court on the east, conducting me 
towards the north gate. And lo! there were five chambers adjoin-. 
ing the vacancy and the north partition wall, in length fronting 


Ch. XLII. EZEKIEL. 


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the north one hundred cubits and in breadth fifty cubits, sculp- 
tured in the same manner as the gates of the inner court and set 
off in the same manner as the peristyles of the outer court with 
a triple range of piazzas in front of the house. And over 
against the chambers was a walk ten cubits broad and a hun- 
dred cubits long and their doors were towards the north. And 
in like manner there were walks for the upper stories. For the 
upper piazza was taken from the building and out of that 
which was a piazza below was made a platform. So there was: 
a piazza and a platform; and this was the case with two of the 
piazzas, for there were three one above another.—But they 
had not pillars like the pillars of the outer piazzas; therefore 
the upper chambers were straightened more than the middle 
and the middle more than those on the ground. And they had 
light from without in the same manner as the chambers of 
the outer court, in front of these chambers on the north, 
the extent being fifty cubits. For the chambers which looked 
into the outer court were fifty cubits deep and were the fore 
front of these. ‘The whole building was a hundred cubits long. 
Now there were doors of these chambers opening into an en- 
try facing the east. So there was a passage through them from 
the outer court along this entry to the lighted walk at the head 
of this passage. And with regard to those on the south in front 
of that vacancy and in front of that partition wall, both the 
chambers and the walk before them were of the same mea- 
sures as those of the chambers on the north. Their length was 
the same; and their breadth the same. And all their outlets 
and all their windings were the same; and their lights and their 
doors the same. And these chambers on the south had in like 
manner doors from the head of the walk into an entry which 
was a reed broad and gave a passage to the east. And he said 
to me, these chambers on the north and those on the south 
which are in front of the vacancies, are the chambers of the 
sanctuary, in which the priests the sons of Sadduk, who come 
near to the Lord, are to eat the holy meats and where they arc 
to lay up the most holy things, the sacrifice and the sin offerings 
and the trespass offerings. Because this is a holy place, none 
but the priests are to go in there. That they who offer up the 
offerings may be continually holy, and that none may touch 


Ch. XLII. EZEKIEL. 


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the garments in which they minister because they afe holy, 
the priests must not go out from the sanctuary into the’ outer 
court. And when τῶι are to mix with the tse nisin nist 
put on other garments. 
Now when he had completed the measuring of iis inner 
house, he then led me out by the way of the gate facing the east 


16᾽ and measured the plot of the house all around in order. Hav- 


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ing taken a station behind the gate facing the east he measur- 
ed five hundred cubits with the measuring reed. Then turn- 


‘mg at the north he measured the north side five hundred cu- 


bits with his measuring reed. Then turning at the west he 
measured the west side five hundred with his measuring reed; 
then turning at the south he measured five hundred with his 
measuring reed. The four sides of the height and breadth of 
this same reed. And he appointed this, namely, the surround- 
ing parapet wall which was five hundred cubits on the east 
sidé and five hundred cubits broad to make a separation be- 
tween the Holies and the vacant space before the wall, which 
was to be comprehended in the plot of the house. 


XLII. Then he brought me to the gate facing the east and 
2 led me out, and lo! the glory of the God of Israel was coming 


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by the way ofthe east; and the sound of his march was like 
the sound of redoubling multitudes and the earth glared with 
the splendour of the glory around, And the vision which I 
saw was like that which 1 beheld when I went to judge the 
city. And the appearance of the chariot which I saw was the 
same as that which I saw at the river Chobar. So I fellon my 
face. And the glory of the Lord entered the house by the way 
of the gate which faced the east. ‘Then a spirit took me up 
and brought me to the inner court. And lo! the house, was fill- 
ed with the glory of the Lord. So I stopped.) And lo! a voice 
from the house, of one speaking to me, and the man stood 
near me. And he said to me, Son of man, Thou hast’seen 
the place of my throne and the place of my footsteps, where 
my name should dwell in the midst of the house of Israel for- 
ever, that the house of Israel may no more. profane my holy 
name; neither they nor their leaders, by their fornication and — 
by the murders of their leaders in the midst of them. By their 
joining my porch to their porches and their thresholds to my 


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thresholds they made my wall as it were common to me and 
them and profaned my holy name by their iniquities which 
they committed. Therefore I destroyed them with my wrath 
and with slaughter. But now let them put away their fornica- 
tion and the murders of their rulers far from me; and I will 
dwell in the midst of them forever. And thou son of man; 
shew the house of Israel this house and let them cease from 
their sins. Point out the figure and arrangement of it; and et 
them receive their punishment for all that they have done. 
Delineate the house and its outlets and its whole figure 
and make known to them the ordinances thereof and all the 


_ rites thereof. And that they may keep my rules of rectitude 


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and all my ordinances and practise them, thou shalt sketch out 


in their sight the draft of this house on the top of this moun- 


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tain, all the boundaries of it round about being Holy of Ho- 


lies.. % «ἢ ° 
-Now these are the measures of the altar by the cubit of a 


ΠΟΙ and a hand breadth—the curvature at the bottom a cu- 


bit, that is the breadth of a cubit; and the border upon the 
edge of it round about, a span. And this is the. height οἵ the 
altar—from the lowest part of the beginning of its curvature 
to the great propitiatory from beneath, two cubits; and its 


᾿ breadth a cubit: and from the little propitiatory four cubits 


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and its breadth a cubit. Then the ariel four cubits and from 
the ariel and upwards the horns one cubit. And the ariel is 
twelve cubits long by twelve broad, the four angles and sides 
being equal. And the propitiatory is fourteen cubits long and 


fourteen cubits broad, its four sides being equal. And the bor- 


der encircling it all around is half a cubit; and the compass of 
it a cubit all around. And the steps up to it face the east. 

_ Then he said to me, Son of man, Thus saith the Lord the 
God of Israel, These are the ordinances of the altar on the day 
when they make it, to offer thereon wholeburnt offerings and 
to pour blood upon it. Thou shalt give a young bull from the 
herd for a sin offering to the priests, the Levites of the house 
of Sadduk who come near to me, saith the Lord God, to mi- 
nister to me; and they shall take some of the blood thereof and 
put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of 
the altar, and on the base round about and make atonement 


Ch. XLIV. EZEKIEL. 


21 for it. ‘Then they shall take the young bull for the sin offering 
and it shall be burned in the appointed place of the house 
22 without the Holies. And on the second day they shall take 
two kids of the goats without blemish for a sin offering and 
make atonement for the altar as they did with the young bull. 
23 And after finishing this atonement they shall offer a young 
_ bull from the herd without blemish, and a ram from the flock 
24 without blemish. And you shall present them before the Lord; 
and the priests shall throw salt upon them, and carry them up 
25 as whole burnt offerings for the Lord. For seven days thou 
shalt offer every day a kid for a sin offering and a young bull 
26 from the herd and a ram from the flock. For seven days they 
shall offer these sacrifices without blemish, and make atone- 
ment for the altar and purify it and shall fill their own hands. 
27 And from the eighth day and thenceforward the priests shall sa- 
crifice upon the altar your whole burnt offerings and your of- 
ferings of thanksgiving and I will accept you, saith the Lord. 
XLIV. Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate 
2 of these holy places, facing the east, and it was shut. And the 
Lord said to me, This gate shall be kept shut. It shall not be 
opened, nor shali any pass through it. Because the Lord God 
of Israel will enter in at it, therefore it shall be kept shut. Con- 
sequently, when the ruler himself shall sit there to eat bread 
before the Lord, he shall come in by the way of the ailam of 
this gate and by that way he shall go out. 
4, Then he brought me in by the way of the north gate over 
against the house, oni I beheld and lo! the house of the Lord 
was filled with glory and I fell on my face. And the Lord said 
to me, Son of man, Lay up in thy heart and see with thine 
eyes and hear with thine ears, all that I say to thee concerning 
all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the customs — 
thereof; and thou shalt attend diligently to the way of entering 
into the house and to all the ways out of it in all these holy 
6 places. And thou shalt say to this provoking house, to the 
house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, Let it suffice you, 
O house of Israel, for all your iniquities, that you have intro- 
duced strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised 
in flesh, to be present in these holy places of mine and to pro- 
fane them when you were offering loaves, flesh meat and 


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Ch. XLIV. EZEKIEL. 


8 blood. You indeed broke my covenant by all your iniquities 
and you appointed them to keep the watches in my holy places. 

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, No stranger, uncircum- 
cised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my 
holy places. Among all the sons of other families which are 
comprehended in the house of Israel none but the Levites only 

10 shallenter. Such of these,as were drawn away from me when 
Israel strayed from me after their own desires shall indeed bear 
their iniquity and be ministering servants in my sanctuary. 

11 They shall be porters at the gates of the house and minister- 
ing servants for the house. ‘They shall kill the sacrifices and 

the whole burnt offerings for the people and they shall stand 

12 before the people to wait upon them. Because they waited on 
them before their idols, and this brought on Israel the punish- 

‘13. ment of rebellion ; therefore I have lifted up my hand against 
them, saith the Lord God, that they shall not come near me to 
minister to me as priests, nor approach the holy things of the 
children of Israel, nor to my Holy of Holies; but shall bear 
their dishonour for the érror of which they have been guilty. 

_14 And they shall be compelled to keep the watches of the house, 
to perform all the services of the house and all the services re- 
quired of them by the priests, the Levites, the sons of Sad- 
-15-duk. These kept the watches of my sanctuary when the house 
of Israel strayed from me. These shall approach me to minis- 

ter to me. And they shall stand before me to offer unto me 

16 sacrifice, suet and blood, saith the Lord God. These shall en- 
ter into my sanctuary; and these shall come to my table to mi- 
nister to me. And they shall keep my watches. And when 
they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall be dressed 
in linen robes and shall not wear woollens, while they are of- 
18 ficiating within the gate of the inner court. And they shall 
have linen mitres on their heads, and linen drawers about their 

19 loins. And they shall not be tightly girded. And when they 
are going out into the outer court to the people, they shall put 

» off their linen robes in which they minister and lay them up in 
the chambers of the sanctuary and put on other robes. For with 

20 those robes of theirs they must not hallow the people. More- 
over they shall not shave their heads, nor pull out their hair by 

21 the roots. ‘They shall keep their heads covered. And none οἵ 

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the priests shall drink wine when they go into the inner court 

22 Moreover they shall not take to wife a widow, nor one who 
hath been divorced ; but only a virgin of the race of Israel. 
However, if there be a widow of a priest, they may take her. 

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between what 
is holy and what is common, and cause them to distinguish 

24 between clean and unclean. And they shall attend at trials for 
blood to pronounce sentence. They shall acquit according to 
my statutes, and condemn according to my judgments. And 
they shall keep all my rites and mine ordinances at all my fes- 

25 tivals and shall hallow my sabbaths. And they shall not go in 
where there is a person dead, to defile themselves. Only for a 
father or fora mother, or for a son or for a daughter, or for a 
brother or for a sister that hath not been married, shall a priest 

26 defile himself. And after he is purified thou shalt reckon for 

27 him seven days. And on the day when they go into the inner 
court to officiate in the sanctuary they shall offer an atonement, 

28 saith the Lord God. Now with regard to their inheritance 1 
will be their inheritance, therefore no possession shall be given 
them among the sons of Israel. 

29. Because I am their possession, therefore they shall eat the 
sacrifices and the sin offerings and the offerings for inadver- 

30 tencies. Moreover every dedication in Israel shall be for 
them.—All the first fruits and all the firstlings and all obla- 
tions. Of all your first fruits a part shall be for the priests, 
therefore you shall give your first fruits to the priest that your 
blessings may rest on your houses. But whatever hath died of 
itself and whatever hath been torn by wild beasts, whether it 
be of fowls or of cattle, the priests shall not eat. 

XLV. Moreover when you parcel out the land for possessions, 
you shall set apart for the Lord an oblation from the land, a 
holy portion twenty five thousand cubits in length and twenty 

2 thousand cubits in breadth. It shall be holy in all its borders 
round about. And out of this shall be the holy portions, five 
hundred cubits by five hundred cubits, a square all around, and 

3 avacancy of fifty cubits all around it. Out of the measurement, 
when thou shalt measure off a length of twenty five thousand 
and a breadth of twenty thousand, part shall be for the Holy of 
Holies and part shall be for the priests who minister in the 


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sanctuary. There shall be both for them who draw near to 
minister to the Lord, and there shall be for the others, a place 
for houses set apart in their holy portions. The length of 
twenty five thousand and the breadth of twenty thousand shall 


’ be for the Levites who serve in the house. They shall have for 


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a possession cities to dwell in. And for the possession of the 
city thou shalt give five thousand in breadth and twenty five 
thousand in length. This, in the same manner as that set apart 
for the sanctuary, shall belong to the whole house of Israel. 
And oneach side of these there shall be allotted for the ruler, 
adjoining the holy oblation and the possession of the city, the 
tracts in front of the holy oblation and the possession of the 
city, both westward and eastward; and the length shall be like 
one of the portions from the boundaries on the sea to the east- 
ern border of the land. And this shall be his possession in Is- 
rael. And the rulers of Israel shall no more oppress my people 
and the house of Israel shall possess the land according to their 
tribes. 

Thus saith the Lord God, let this suffice you; O princes of 
Israel. Put an end to injustice and misery. Execute judg- 
ment and justice. Remove oppression from my people, saith 
the Lord God. Let your weights and measures be just. Let 
your chenix be the just part of the measure; and let the che- 
nix uniformly contain the tenth of a gomar. Leta chenix and 
a tenth of a gomar, as it respecteth a gomar, be equal. And the 
weights shall be twenty oboli, five shekels, fifteen shekels. And 
fifty shekels shall be your mna. 

Now this shall be the oblation which you shall set apart, a 
sixth of a measure from the gomar of wheat and the sixth of 
the same ephah from the core of barley. And the ordinance of 
oil shall be one cotula of oil from ten cotulas; for the ten cotu- 
las are a gomar. And a sheep from the flock, from every ten, 
shall be an oblation from all the families of Israel for sacrifices 
and for whole burnt offerings and for offerings of thanksgiving 
to make atonement for you, saith the Lord God. And all the 
people shall give this oblation to the ruler of Israel; and by the 
ruler shall be given the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifi- 
ces and the libations at the festivals and at the new moons and 
on the sabbaths. At all the festivals of the house of Israel he 


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shall make the sin offerings and the sacrifices and the whole 
burnt offerings and the offerings of thanksgiving to make atone-. 
ment for the house of Israel. 


Thus saith the Lord God, In the first month on the first 


day of the month, you shall take from the herd a young bull 


without blemish, to make atonement for the sanctuary. And ᾿ς 


the priest shall take some of the blood of the atonement and 
put it on the door posts of the house and on the four corners of 
the temple and on the altar and,on the posts of the gate of the 
inner court. And in like manner thou shalt do in the seventh 
month. On the first of that month thou shalt receivé a portion 
from every individual and you shall make atonement for the 
house. And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of this 
month, shall be your paschal festival. Seven days you shall eat 
unleavened bread. And on that day the ruler shall offer, for 
himself and his house and for all the people of the land, a young 
bull for a sin offering. And during the seven days of the fes- 
tival he shall offer as whole burnt offerings to the Lord, seven 
young bulls and seven rams without blemish, every day du- 
ring the seven days; and for a sin offering, a kid of the goats 
every day witha sacrifice. And thou shalt prepare a cake for 
the bull and cakes for the rams, with a hin of oil to the cake. 
And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth of the month, at that 
festival thou shalt do in like manner, during seven days, as well 
in regard to the sin offerings as to the whole burnt offerings and 
the cakes and the oil. 


XLVI. Thus saith the Lord God, The gate of the inner court 


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which faceth the east, shall be kept shut the six working days. 
On the day of the sabbaths it must be opened and on the day 
of the new moon it shall be opened. And the ruler shall go in 
by the way of the ailam of the gate on the inside and shall 
stand in the porch of the gate. And the priests shall prepare 
his whole burnt offerings and his offerings of thanksgiving; and 
he shall make his adoration in the porch of the gate and go out. 
But the gate shall not be shut till evening. And the people of 
the land shall make their adorations on a range with the porch 
of this gate, both on the sabbath days and at the new moons, 


before the Lord. And on the sabbath days the ruler shall offer . 


to the Lord, for whole burnt offerings, six lambs without blem- 


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ish andaram without blemish and a libation and cake for the 
ram; and for the lambs, a sacrifice, a free will offering with 
a hin of oil to every cake; and on the day of the new moon a 
young bull without blemish and six lambs and a ram which 
shall be without blemish; and there shall be a cake for the 
ram and a cake for the young bull with a libation, and for the 
lambs a voluntary gift and a hin of oil to every cake. And when 
the ruler cometh in he shall come in by the way of the ailam 
of the gate, but he shall go out by the way of the gate. 
And when the people of the land come in before the Lord at 
the festivals, he who cometh in at the north gate to worship, 
shall go out at the south gate: and he who cometh in at the 
south gate shall go out at the north gate. He shall not turn 
back to the gate at which he entered, but shall go out straight 
forward. And if the ruler is in the midst of them when they 
come in, he shall come in with them, and when they go out he 
shall go out. Both at the festivals and at the general assem- 
blies there shall be a libation and cake for the young bull and 
a cake for the ram; and for the lambs a voluntary gift with a 
hin of oil for every cake. And if the ruler shall make a volun- 
tary whole burnt offering of thanksgiving to the Lord, he may 
cause to be opened for himself the gate facing the east and 
make his whole burnt offering and his offerings of thanksgiv- 
ing in the same manner as he doth on the day of the sabbaths. 
Then he shall go out, and after he is gone out he shall cause 
the gates to be shut.—Moreoyer he shall every day prepare a 
lamb of the first year without blemish for a whole burnt offer- 
ing to the Lord. In the morning he shall prepare it; and every 
morning he shall prepare the libation for it, the sixth of the mea- 
sure and the third of an hin of oil to mix up the offering of 
fine flour for the Lord. This is a standing order, you shall of- 
fer the lamb and its libation. And you shall offer the oil every 
morning. It isa continual whole burnt offering. 

Thus saith the Lord God, If the ruler make a gift to one 
of his sons out of his inheritance, his sons shall hold it as an 
hereditary possession ; but if he make a gift to one of his 
servants, it shall be his to the year of jubilee, and shall then 
revert to the ruler. None but his sons shall have an heredi- 
tary right. The ruler must not take any part of the people’s 


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inheritance by oppression. Out of his own possessions he 
shall give an inheritance to his sons, that my people may not 
be driven every one from his possession. 
Then he led me to the entrance of the passage behind 
the gate, leading to the chambers of the priests facing the 
north. And lo! here was a place set apart. And he said to 
me, This is the place where the priests are to boil the tres- 
pass offerings, and the sin offerings and where they are to 
bake all the offerings of flour, that they may not carry them 
out into the outer court, for fear of hallowing the people. 
Then he led me to the outer court and conducted me round 
the four sides of the court. And lo! a court at the four cor- 
ners of this court. At every corner a court; a court with 
four sides; and the little-court of this court was forty cubits 
long and thirty cubits broad. The four were of the same mea- 
sure ; and in them were chambers around the four. And un- 
der these chambers round about were kitchens. And he said 
to me, These are the houses of the cooks, where they who 
minister in the house are to boil the sacrifices of the people. 


XLVII. Then he brought me to the vestibule of the house, 


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and lo! water gushed out from under the porch eastward ; for 
the front of the house faced the east; and the water ran down 
from the right corner, from the south, by the altar. And he 
led me out by the way of the north gate, and conducted me 
round on the outside to the gate facing the east ; and lo! the 
water flowed down from the right corner, as a man cometh 
out. And having a measure in his hand, he measured a thou- 
sand with the measure, and waded across a purling’ stream. 
Then he measured a thousand with the measure, and waded 
through water up to the thighs. Then he measured a thou- 
sand and waded through water up to the loins. ‘Then he mea- 
sured a thousand and could not cross it; for it was swelled 
to an impassable torrent. And he said to me, Hast thou seen, 
Son of man? Then he led and brought me back along the 
border of the river. And on my return, behold there were 
on the bank of the river, trees in great abundance on both 
sides. And he said to me, This water which is flowing out 
to the eastern part of Galilee, hath indeed gone down to Ara- . 


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bia, and hath come to the sea to the water of the outlet, and it 
will heal the waters; so that every of the animals which breed 
in all the places whithersoever the stream cometh, shall live, 
and there shall be fish there in great abundance. Because this 
water is come there and healeth, therefore they shall live.— 
Every thing to which the stream cometh shall live. And fish- 
ermen shall there take a stand, from Engadin to Enagallim. 
There shall be a place for drying nets. The nets shall be of 
a peculiar kind; and the fishes thereof shall be like the fishes 
of the great sea; a very great multitude. But when it is forced 
from its channel and when it is turned from its course, and 
when it is caused to swell immoderately, the waters will not 
heal. They are turned into salt. And along the river there 
shall spring up on both banks, all sorts of trees fit for food. 
Their leaves shall never fade; nor shall their fruit ever fail. 
They shall always be in the act of producing fresh fruit, be- 
cause the waters which nourish them flow down from the 
sanctuary. And their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves 
for medicine. 

Thus saith the Lord God, These are the boundaries of the 
land, which you shall inherit. It is an allotted portion for the 
twelve tribes of Israel. And you shall inherit it, one as well as 
another. It is that for which [lifted up my hand that I would 
give it to their fathers; therefore this land shall fall to you for 
an inheritance, and these are the boundaries of the land—on 
the north from the great sea which cometh down and. the bay 
of IXmaseldam, Maabtheras, Ebrameliam between the bor- 
ders of Damascus and the borders of Exmathei, the court of 
Saunan, which are above the borders of Auranitis, these are the 
borders from the sea; from the court of Ainan the borders of 
Damascus. These are the northern boundaries. And with re- 
gard to the borders on the east between Loranitis and between 
Damascus and between Galaditis and the land of Israel, the 
Jordan is the boundary to the sea which is eastward in front 
of Phenicon. These are the eastern boundaries. And on the 
south the boundaries are from Thaiman and Pheenicon to the 
water of Marimoth Kadem, thence to the great sea. This is 


the southern boundary. Thence a part of the great sea is the 


boundary to over against the bay of Emath even to the en- 


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trance thereof. These are the boundaries to the sea of math. 
And you shall measure out this land for them to the tribes of 


22 Israel. You shall parcel it out by lot among you and the pro- 


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selytes who dwell among you.. Whoever have begotten sons 
among you shall be yours as natives among the children of 
Israel. With you they shall enjoy an inheritance among the 
tribes of Israel, but they shall be classed in the tribe of pro- 
selytes among the proselytes who are with you. There you 
shall give them an inheritance, saith the Lord God. 


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northward along the bay to the harbour of Emath, the court 
of Ailam, the border of Damascus northward, along part of 
Emath Aula; and they shall have from their eastern boundary 
to the sea one portion for Dan. And bordering on Dan from 
the eastern boundary to the sea a portion for Aser.. And bor- 
dering on Aser from the eastern boundary to the sea a por- 
tion for Nephthaleim; and bordering on Nephthaleim from the 
eastern boundary to the sea, a portion for Manasses; and bor- 
dering on Manasses from the castern boundary to the sea, a 


portion for Ephraim ; and bordering on Ephraim from the 


eastern boundary to the sea, a portion for Reuben; and bor- 
dering on Reuben from the eastern boundary to the sea, a por- 
tion for Juda; and bordering on Juda from the eastern bounda- 
ry shall be the dedicated portion twenty five thousand cubits 
broad and the length like one of the portions from the eastern 
boundary to the sea, so the sanctuary shall be in the midst of 


them. The oblation which you shall set.apart for the Lord 


shall be twenty five thousand cubits long and twenty five 
thousand broad. Out of these there shall be for the priests 
the holy dedication, on the north side twenty five thousand 
and on the west side ten thousand and on the south side twen- 
ty five thousand. And the mountain of the Holies shall be in 
the midst of it. To the priests, the consecrated sons of Sad- 
duk, who keep the watches of the house, who were not led 
astray in the apostasy of the children of Israel, as the Levites 
were, even to them this dedicated portion is given out of the 
dedicated portions of the land, as a Holy of Holies, apart 
from the Levites: and to the Levites shall be given, adjoin- 
ing the borders of the priests, a portion twenty five thousand 


Ch, XLVIII. EZEKIEL. 


cubits long and ten thousand broad; the whole being twenty 

14 five thousand in length and twenty thousand in breadth. No 
part of this shall be sold; nor shall it be parcelled out; nor 
shall the first fruits of this land be set apart; for it is dedicated 

15 to the Lord. And with regard to the overplus twenty five 
thousand in length and five thousand broad, out of it there shall 

be a plot for the city, for building and for the open walk around 

16 it. Now the city shall be in the middle of it, and these shall 
be its dimensions—on the north, four thousand five hundred 
cubits; and on the south, four thousand five hundred; and on 
the east, four thousand five hundred; and on the west, four 

17 thousand five hundred. And the open walk for the city shall 
be on the north, two hundred and fifty, and on the south, two 
hundred and fifty, and on the east, two hundred and fifty, and 

18 onthe west, two hundredand fifty. And the residue of the length 
adjoining the holy dedication, ten thousand on the east and ten 
thousand on the west side shall be dedicated portions, and 
they who occupy the city shall have the products thereof for 

19 bread. It may be worked by any out ofall the tribes of Israel 
20 who occupy the city. The whole oblation twenty five thou- 
sand by twenty five thousand shall be a square. From it you 
shall set apart the oblation for the sanctuary bordering on the 

21 possession of the city. And the residue on the one side and the 
other shall be for the ruler, bordering on the holy dedications 
and along the possession of the city for twenty five thousand 

in length, and thence to the eastern boundary and westward 

by twenty five thousand to the western boundary. Adjoining 

_ , these portions of the ruler shall be the holy oblation. And the 
dedication appropriate to the house shall be in the middle of 

22 it and taken from the Levites, and shall border on the posses- 
sion of the city which is in the middle between the ruler’s 
portions. And it shall be between the borders of Juda and the 

23 borders of Benjamin and the portions of the ruler. And with 
respect to the rest of the tribes, there shall be from the eastern 

24 boundary to the sea, a portion for Benjamin: and bordering 
on Benjamin from the eastern boundary to the sea, a portion 

25 for Symeon: and bordering on Symeon, from the eastern 
_ 26 boundary to the sea, a portion for Issachar : and bordering on 


issachar from the eastern boundary to the sea, a pertion for 
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Zabulon: and bordering upon Zabulon from the eastern 
boundary tothe sea, a portion for Gad: and the borders of 
Gad shall be from the eastern boundary and on the south 
along) by the border of 'Thaiman and the water of Baremoth 
Kades included in his possession, to the great sea. This is 
the land which you shall parcel out by lot among the tribes of 
‘Israel: and these are their portions, saith the Lord God. 
Moreover these shall be the streets of the city, those 
running northward four thousand five hundred cubits; and the 
gates of the city shall be named after the tribes of Israel, three 
gates facing the north, one gate Reuben, one gate Juda and 
one gate Levi; and those running eastward four thousand five 
hundred cubits, with three gates, one gate Joseph and one 
gate Benjamin and one gate Dan: and those running south- 
ward, four thousand five hundred cubits with three gates, one 
gate Symeon and one gate Issachar and one gate Zabulon; 
and those running westward four thousand five hundred cu- . 
bits with three gates, one gate Gad, and one gate Aser and 
one gate Nephthaleim. The circumference eighteen thousand. 
And the name of the city from the day it is built shall be the 
name it now hath. 


DANIEL. 


v oLN the third year of the reign of Joakim king of Juda, Na- 
buchodonosar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and be- 


of Juda and a part’ of the vessels of the house of God, which 
he carried to the land of Sennaar to the house of his god : and. 
having deposited the vessels in the treasure house of his god, 
the king ordered Asphanez his high chamberlain to bring in 
of the children of the captivity of Israel, namely, of the seed 
royal.and of the nobility, some youths who had no blemish, 
and who were of a good countenance, studious of every sci- 
ence, improved in knowledge and understanding and quall- 
fied to stand im the house before the king; and to instruct them 
in the learning and language of the Chaldeans. And the king 
ordered them a daily allowance from the king’s table, and of 
the wine for his own drinking; and that they should be diet- 
ed for-three years and after that stand before the king. 


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Now there were among them of the children of Juda, Da- 
niel and Ananias and Azarias and Misael; and the high cham- 
berlain gave them names, to Daniel, Baltasar; and to Ananias, ᾿ 
Sedrach; and to Misael, Misach; and to Azarias, Abdenago. 
And Daniel having resolved not to pollute himself with the ta- 
ble of the king nor with the wine which he drank, intreated the 
chamberlain that he might not be defiled. Now God had 


‘brought Daniel into favour and compassion with the high 


chamberlain, therefore the chamberlain said to Daniel, I am 
afraid of my lord the king who hath appointed your meat and 
your drink. Perhaps he may see your countenance more un- 
comely than the youths of your age, and you may endanger 
my head with the king. Thereupon Daniel said to Amelsad, 

whom the high chamberlain had set over Daniel, Ananias, 
Misael and Azarias, Try thy servants, we pray thee, ten days, 
and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink; and 
let our countenances and the countenances of the youths who 
eat of the king’s table be examined in thy presence; and, as 
thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he hearkened to them 
and tried them ten days. And at the end of the ten days their 
countenances appeared more comely and their flesh firmer 
than that of the youths, who had eaten of the king’s table; 
whereupon Amelsad took away the food and the wine for 
their drink and gave them vegetables. And as for these four 
youths, God gave them knowledge and understanding im all 
literature and science; and Daniel was skilled in all visions 
and dreams. And at the end of the years which the king had 
appointed for introducing them, the high chamberlain brought 
them in before Nabuchodonosar. And the king conversed 
with them. And among them all there were none found equal 
to Daniel and Ananias and Misael and Azarias. So they stood 
before the king. And in every subject of wisdom and science 
on which the king questioned them he found them ten times 


᾿ mere skilled:than all the scothsayers and the magians who 


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were in'the realm. And Daniel continued to the first year of 
Cyrus the king. 

Nabuchodonosar, in the second year of his reign, dreamed 
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him. And the king gaveorders to call the soothsayers and the 
magians and the chymists and the Chaldees that they might 
tell the king his dream. And when they were come and stood 
before the king, the king said to them, I have dreamed and 
my mind is anxious to know the dream. Whereupon. the 
Chaldees said to the king in Syriac, O king, live forever. Tell 
thy servants the dream and we will explain the meaning. The 
king answered the Chaldees, The subject is gone from me. If 
you do not tell me the dream and the interpretation you shall 
be put to death and your houses shall be exposed to plunder. 
But if you let me know the dream and the interpretation, you 
shall receive of me gifts and immunities and great honour. At 
all events, tell me the dream and the meaning of it. They an- 
swered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream 
and we will explain the meaning. In reply to which the king 


said, I know of a truth that you want to gain time, as you see 


the matter is gone from me. If therefore you do not tell me the 
dream, 1 take it for granted that you have’agreed upon some- 
thing false and fictitious to be said before me, until the time elapse. 
Tell me my dream, then I will know that you can tell me the mean- 
ing of it. The Chaldees answered in the presence of the king 
and said, There is not a marron the earth who can make known 
what the king requireth; nor doth any king or ruler, however 
great, ask such a thing, of any soothsayer, magian or Chaldee. 
For the thing which the king requireth is so difficult, that there 
is none who can lay it before the king, but the gods only, whose 
dwelling is not with flesh. Upon this the king in furious wrath 
gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. So the 
decree went forth. And when the wise men began to be slan— 

(Now search had been made for Danieland his friends to slay 
them and Daniel had then addressed Arioch, the king’s mar- 
shal, who was going out to slay the wisemen of Babylon, 
touching the counsel and decree, ‘‘ Why, O chief of the king, 
hath this horrid sentence gone forth from the king’s presence?” 
And when Arioch informed Daniel of the matter, Daniel had 
intreated the king to grant him time and he would tell the _ 
king the meaning of it; and Daniel had gone to his house and 
acquainted his friends Ananias, Misael and Azarias with the . 
affair; and they had sought mercy of the God of heaven touch- 


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ing this, secret, that Daniel and his friends might not perish 
with the rest of the wise men of Babylon: and the secret was 
revealed to Daniel in a vision of the mght; whereupon he 
blessed the God of heaven, and said, “" Blessed be the name 
of God from everlasting to everlasting; for wisdom and know- 
ledge are his; and he changeth times and seasons. He setteth up 
kings and removeth them. He giveth wisdom to the wise and 
understanding to them who have knowledge. He it is who re- 
vealeth deep and hidden things. He bsinctatl the things which 
are in darkness. And with him is the light. To dated O God 
of my fathers, I give thanks and praise ; because thou hast 
given me wisdom and power and hast made known to me 
what we asked thee and hast revealed to me the vision of the 
king.) 

Then Daniel went to Arioch whom the king had appoint- 
ed to slay the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Destroy 
not the wise men of Babylon; but introduce me to the king, 
and I will tell him the meaning. Thereupon Arioch with 
haste introduced Daniel to the presence of the king and said 
to him, I have found among the captives of Israel, a man 
who can tell the king the interpretation. And the king ad- 
dressing Daniel, whose name was Baltasar, said, Canst thou 
tell me the dream which I saw, and the meaning of it? And 
Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, The 
secret which the king demandeth, it is not in the power of wise 
men, magians, sooth sayers, gazarenes, to tell the king. There 
is none but God in heaven who revealeth secrets. He indeed 
hath made known to the king Nabuchodonosar what must 
come to pass in latter days. With regard to thy dream, and 
the visions of thy head, on thy bed, this is it. Thy thoughts, 
O king, on thy bed ascended to what might come to pass 
hereafter. And he who revealeth secrets made known to thee 
the things which must come to pass. And to me this secret 
was revealed, not indeed for any wisdom in me above all the 
living: but for the purpose of making the interpretation known 
to the king, that thou mayst know the thoughts of thy heart. 
Thou, O king! didst behold, and lo! an image! Great was 
that image and its aspect lofty as it stood before thee; and its 
appearance was awful. It was an image, the head of which 


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was of pure gold; the hands and the breast and the arms of 
it were of silver; the belly and the thighs of brass: the legs 
of iron; the feet partly of iron, and partly of potter’s clay.— 


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was rent without hands ἃ stone, which smote the image on the 
feet, which were of iron and potters clay, and at last broke 
them to pieces. Then were broken to pieces at once, the clay, 
the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold. And they became like . 
the dust of a threshing floor in summer: and a great wind 


.swept them away, and there was no place found for them. 


And the stone which smote the image became a great moun- 
tain and filled all the earth. This is the dream. The mean- 
ing of it we will now explain to the king. Thou O king, art 
a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven hath given a king- 
dom, strong and mighty and glorious, in every place where 
the sons of men dwell. Into thy hand he hath delivered the 
beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the fishes of | 
the sea, and appointed thee lord over all. ‘Thou art the head 
of gold. And after thee there shall be raised up another king- 
dom inferior to thee; then a third kingdom which is the brass, 
which shall rule over the whole earth; then a fourth kingdom 
which shall be strong as iron. As iron breaketh to pieces and 
subdueth all things, so shall it break and subdue all. And 
inasmuch as thou sawest the feet and toes, partly of clay and 
partly of iron, it shall be a disjointed kingdom, though there 
shall be in it some of its iron root. As thou sawest the iron 
mixed with the clay ; and the toes of the feet were part iron, 
and part clay, some ‘part of that kingdom will be strong and 
some part of it will be broken. Inasmuch as thou sawest the 
iron mingled with the clay, there will be mixtures in it, of the 
seed of men, and they will not cement one with another, as 
iron doth not cement with clay. And in the days of those 
kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom ‘which shall 
never be destroyed; and this kingdom of his shall not be left 
to another people. It shall break in pieces, and blow away all 
those kingdoms and shall itself stand forever. As thou sawest 
that without hands there was cut from a mountain a stone, which 
broke in pieces the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, the . 
gold; the God who is great, hath made known to the king 


ΘΠ. DANIEL. 


what must come to pass hereafter. The dream indeed is true 
and the interpretation thereof is faithful. 

46 Then king Nabuchodonosar fell on his face, and made 

‘ obeisance to Daniel and ordered holy gifts, and sweet odours 
47 to be offered tohim. And the king answered and said to Da- 
‘niel, Of a truth, your God is the God of Gods, and the Lord 
_ of kings, the revealer of secrets; since thou hast been enabled 

48 toreveal this secret. Then the king raised Danielto high rank 
and gave him many great gifts, and set him over the whole re- 
gion of Babylon, and a chief satrap over all the wise men of 

49 Babylon. And Daniel requested of the king, and he set Se- 
drach, Misach and Abdenago, over the works of the region 
of Babylon. And Daniel was in the court of the king. 

Ii. In the eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosar, the king made 
an image of gold; the height of it was sixty cubits, and its 
breadth six cubits. And having set it up in the plain of Dee- 

2 ira, in the province of Babylon, he sent for the presidents and. 

the generals, and the governors, rulers and princes, and those 
in authority, and all the chiefs of the provinces, to come to 
the dedication of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king 
had set up. And when the governors, the presidents, the ge- 
nerals, the leaders, the great princes, those in authority, and 
all the chiefs of the provinces were assembled for the dedica- 
tion of the image which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up, 
and were standing before the image, the herald cried with a 
4 loud voice, To you peoples'of different tribes and languages 
command is given; whenever you shall hear the sound of the 
trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the 
psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate your- 
selves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar 
the king hath set up. And whoever will not prostrate himself 
and worship, shall that very hour be cast into that furnace _ 
fire, which is heating. 

7 So when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and 

syrinx, and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery, 
and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, tribes and 

Janguages, falling prostrate, worshipped the golden image 
8 which Nabuchodonosar the king had set up. Then came certain 

Chaldeans, and stated te the king an accusation against the 


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Jews, ‘ O king, live forever! thou, O king, hast made a de- 
cree, that every man who shall hear the sound of the trumpet 
and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery 
and all kinds of musical instruments; and who will not pros-_ 
trate himself and worship the golden image, shall be cast into 
that furnace of fire which is heated. Now there are certain 
Jews whom thou hast set over the works of the province of 
Babylon, namely, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, who have not 
hearkened, O king, to thy decree. They neither serve thy gods, 
nor do they worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” 
Upon this Nabuchodonosar in wrath and fury commanded 
to bring Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago: and when they were 


14 brought before the king, Nabuchodonosar addressed them, say- 


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ing, Is it true, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, that you do not 
serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have 
set up? Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the 
sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sam- 


_ buk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musi- 


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cal instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image 
which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that 
very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. 
And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands? 
In reply to this, Sedrach, .Misach, Abdenago said to the king 
Nabuchodonosar, We are at no loss to answer thee in respect 
to this matter. For our God in heaven, whom we worship, 15 
able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, 
and he will deliver us, O king, out of thy hands. But even 
though he do not, be it known to thee, O king, that we can- 
not serve thy gods, nor will we worship the image which thou 
hast set up. At this Nabuchodonosar was filled with wrath, and 
the form of his countenance was changed against Sedrach, Mi- 
sach and Abdenago. And he ordered to heat the furnace seven 
fold, till it was hot as possible: and commanded some strong 
men to bind Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago, and cast them 
into the furnace of fire which was heated. Then were these 
men bound, clad as they were with their Babylonish dress and Ὁ 
with turbans and boots; and cast into.the midst of the furnace 
of fire which was heated, as, the command of the king was pe- 
remptory. But though the furnace was heated to an excessive 


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degree and these three men, Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago fell 
bound into the midst of the glowing furnace, yet they walked 
about in the midst of the flame, praising God and blessing the 


| Lord. When Nabuchodonosar heard them singing praise he 


was amazed-and starting up hastily said to his nobles, Did we 
not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? And when 
they said to the king, True, O king, the king said, Here I see 
four men loose and walking about in the midst of the fire un- 
hurt: And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of a god. 
Then Nabuchodonosar went near to the mouth of the burning 
fiery furnace and said, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, ye-ser- 
vants of the Most High God, come out and come hither. Upon 
which Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago came forth out of the 
midst of the fire. And the satraps and the generals and the go- 
vernors and the mighty men of the king gathered round and 
viewed the men with astonishment; for the fire had not had 
any power over their body. Even the hair of their heads was 
not singed, nor were their mantles changed, nor a smell of fire 
on them. Then Nabuchodonosar the king addressing them, 
said, ‘Blessed be the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, 
who hath sent his angel and delivered his servants. Because 


they have trusted in him and have altered the king’s decree 


and delivered up their bodies to fire that they might not serve 
nor worship any god, but only their own God, therefore I issue 
this decree, “‘E:very people, tribe, language, which shall utter 
any reproach against the God of Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago, 
shall be devoted to destruction and their houses to plunder: for 
there is no other god who can deliver in this manner.” 

Then the king reinstated Sedrach, Misach and Abdenago 
in the province of Babylon, and advanced them in dignity and 
honoured them with a command over all the Jews in his realm. 


NABUCHODONOSAR the king, to all the peoples, 
tribes and languages who dwell 1 in all the earth: Henee be mul- 
tiplied to you. 

It hath seemed good in my sight to dedkewe to you he 
signs and the wonders which the God who is Most High hath 
date with me. How great and mighty is his kingdom. His king- 


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dom is an everlasting Kirin and his dominion is to endless 
ages. 

I Nabuchodonosar was at rest in my house and in the ene 
joyment of prosperity. I had a dream which terrified me and ἢ 
was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head disquiet- 
ed me. Therefore I issued a decree to bring before me all the 
wise men of Babylon, that they might explain to me the mean- 
ing of this dream. And when the soothsayers, the magians, 
the gazarenes, the Chaldees came in, I told my dream before 
them; but they did not explain to me the meaning of it until 
Daniel came, whose name is Baltasar, after the name of my 
God, and who hath in him a holy spirit of a God. To him I 
said, Baltasar chief of the soothsayers, who, I know, hast a ho- 
ly spirit of a god in thee, so that no secret can escape thee, 
hear the vision of the dream. which I have seen; and tell me 
the meaning of it. I beheld with astonishment on my bed, and 
lo! a tree in the midst of the earth. Though its height was 
great, the tree increased in magnitude and strength and its top 
reached up to heaven; and its bulk to the extent of the whole 
earth. Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant. And on 
it there was food for all: and the wild. beasts of the field dwelt 
beneath it; and the birds of the air lodged among its branches; 
and from it all flesh was fed. I beheld in a vision of the night 
on my bed; and lo an Zir, even a holy one, came down from 
heaven and cried with a loud voice, and thus he said, “(πὶ 
down that tree and lop off its branches and shake off its leaves 


--and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts be driven from underneath 


it and the birds from its branches. But leave the stump of its 
roots in the earth; and ina band of iron and brass and in the 
green grass abroad and in the dew of heaven let it abide: and let 
its:portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth. His 
heart shall be changed from men and the heart of a wild beast 
shall be given him and seven seasons shall revolve over him. 
The sentence is by the decree of an ir; and the decree is a 
request of holy ones, that the living may know that there is a 
sovereign Lord of the kingdom of men and that he can give it 
to whom he will, and set over it that which is disesteemed by 
men.’’ This is the dream, which I Nabuchodonosar the king 
have seen. Thou therefore Baltasar, tell me the meaning; for 


Ch. IV. DANIEL. 


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all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to explain to me 
‘the meaning of it: but thou Daniel art able, because there is in 
thee the holy spirit of a god. | 

Upon this Daniel, whose name is Baltasar, was absorpt in 
astonishment for about an hour and his thoughts agitated him 


and Baltasar answered and said, Let this dream, my Lord, be 


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for them who hate thee, and the interpretation thereof for thine 
enemies. The tree which thou sawest, which was increased in 
magnitude and strength, the top of which reached up to hea- 
ven and its bulk to the extent of the whole earth, the leaves of 
which were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and on which 
there was food for all; beneath which the beasts of the field 
dwelt, and on the branches of which the birds of the air roost- 


‘ed: Thou, O king art it. For thou art become great and 


» Strong and thy greatness hath increased and reached up to hea- 


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ven and thy dominion to the limits οἵ the earth. And inas- 
muchas the king saw an Eir, even a holy one descending from 
heaven who said, Cut down that tree and destroy it, but leave 
the stump of its roots in the earth; and in a band of iron and 
brass and in the green grass abroad and in the dew of heaven 
let it abide; and let its portion be with the wild beasts of the 
Geld until seven seasons revolve over it—This, O king, is the 
interpretation thereof and the decree of the Most High which 
is about to come upon my lord the king. ‘Thou wilt be dri- 
yen from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts 
of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox; and 
thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall 
revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most 
High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom 
he will, But inasmuch as they said, Let the stump of the 
roots of the tree remain, thy kingdom shall remain for thee 
when thou art made sensible of the heavenly authority. For 
this cause, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee; and 
make atonement for thy sins by acts of kindness, and for thy 
transgressions by tender mercies for the distressed. Perhaps 
God may forgive thine offences. | | 

All these things came upon Nabuchodonosar the king. At 
the end of twelve months, as the king was walking in the temple 
of his kingdom at Babylon, he spake, saying, Is not this the 


Ch. V. ~~ DANIEL. 


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great Babylon which I have built for the house of akingdom, — 
by the might of my power, for the display of my glory? While 
the word was yet in the king’s mouth, there came a voice from 
heaven, To thee Nabuchodonosar it is said, the regal power is 


32 gone from thee and thou shalt be driven from among men and 


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thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they 
shall feed thee with grass like an ox; and seven seasons shall 
revolve over thee, that thou mayst know that the Most High 
ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he 
will. In that very hour the word was fulfilled on Nabuchodo- 
nosar; and he was driven from among men and ate grass like 
an ox and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven, until 
his hair grew strong like the shag of lions and his nails like the 
claws of birds. And at the end of the days I Nabuchodonosar 


_ lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and mine understanding was re- 


stored to. me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and 
glorified him who liveth forever; for his dominion is an ever- 
lasting dominion and his kingdom is to endless generations, 
and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; 
and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven 
and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can 
stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done. At this very 


hour my senses were restored to me and I reassumed the ho- 


nour of my kingdom; and my form returned to me; and my 
princes and my grandees sought me; and Iwas re-established in. 
my kingdom and greater majesty was added to me. Now there- 
fore 1 Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king 
of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judg- 
ments and all them who walk in pride he can abase. 


KING Baltasar made a great supper for his thousand gran- 
dees and wine was set before the thousand. And as he was 
drinking, Baltasar gave an order upon tasting the wine, to bring 
the vessels of gold and silver which Nabuchodonosar his fa- 
ther had brought out of the temple at Jerusalem; and that the 
king and his nobles, and his concubines and his wives should 
drink out ofthem. Accordingly the vessels of gold and silver 
which had been taken out of the temple of God at Jerusalem | 
were brought, and the king and his nobles and his concubines 


Ch. V. DANIEL. 


4 and his wives drank out of them. And having drunk wine they 


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praised the gods of gold and gilver and brass and wood and 
stone. At that very hour there came forth fingers of a man’s 
hand and wrote over against the lamp, on the plaistering of the 
wall of the king’s palace. And the king beheld with astonish- 
ment the joint of the hand that was writing. Whereupon the 
king’s countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him and 
the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees smote one 
against another. And the king cried aloud to bring in the ma- 
gians, Chaldees, gazarenes. And he said to the wise men of 
Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing and explain to me 
the meaning, he shall be clothed with purple and have a chain 
of gold for his neck and shall be a chief, third in rank, in my 


.kingdom. And when all the king’s wise men came in and could 


neither read the writing nor explain the meaning to the king, 
king Baltasar was agitated and his countenance changed, and 
his nobles were in like trepidation. Then the queen came to 
the banquet house and said, O king, live forever! Let not thy - 
thoughts trouble thee, nor thy countenance change. There is ~ 


᾿ς in thy kingdom aman, in whom is a spirit of a god, and in the 


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days of thy father, light and knowledge were found in him, 
and the king Nabuchodonosar thy father appointed him chief 
of the soothsayers, Chaldees, gazarenes, because of the extra- 
ordinary spirit in him, and of his understanding and know- 
ledge in the interpretation of dreams, and explaining hard sen- 
tences and solving difficulties—namely Daniel whom the king 
surnamed Baltasar. Now therefore let him be called in and he 
will tell thee the meaning of this. Thereupon Daniel was 
brought in before the king. And the king said to Daniel, 
Thou art Daniel? One of the captives of Juda whom the king 
my father brought hither? I have heard of thee that there is in 
thee a spirit of a god, and that light and knowledge and extra- 
ordinary wisdom have been found in thee. Now the wise men, 
magians, gazarenes have come in before me to read that writ- 
ing and make known to me the meaning of it, but they are not 
able to tell me. But I have heard of thee that thou canst solve 
difficulties. Now therefore if thou canst read that writing and 
explain to me the meaning of it, thou shalt be clothed in pur- 
ple and have a chain of gold for thy neck and be a chief, third 


CRU. DANIEL. 


17 inrank, in my kingdom. Then Daniel said before the king, 
Let thy gifts be thine own, and give to another the honour of 
thy household; but the writing I will read, and I will explain 

18 to thee the meaning of it. O king, God, the Most High gave to 
Nabuchodonosar thy father this kingdom and majesty and glo- 

19 ry and honour. And because of the majesty which he gave him, 
all the peoples, tribes and languages trembled and were struck 
with awe at his presence. Whom he would he slew, and whom 
he would he smote, and whom he would he set up, and whom 

20 he would he put down. But when his heart became elated and 
his spirit emboldened to shew its arrogance, he was deposed 
from the throne of his kingdom and his glory was taken from 

21 him; and he was driven from among men; and his heart was 

_ disposed to associate with the beasts; and his dwelling was with 
the wild asses; and he was fed with grass like an ox; and his 
body was bathed with the dew of heaven, till he was made to 
know that the Most High God ruleth over the kingdom of 
men and can give it to whom he will. 

22 Now thou, Baltasar, his son, hast not therefore humbled thy 

23 heart before this God. Hast thou not known all these things? 
Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. 
And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, 
and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives 
have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods 
of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone 
which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in 
whose hand 15 thy breath and all thy ways—him thou hast not 

24 glorified. For this cause a joint of a hand hath been sent from 

25 his presence, and it hath sketched this writing. Now this is what 

26 is written, Mane, Thekel, Phares. The interpretation of the de- 

27 cree is this. Mane; God hath measured thy kingdom and 

28 brought it to aconclusion. Theke/—It hath been weighed ina 
ἜΠΑΝΑ and found wanting. Phares—Thy kingdom is mai 
away and given to Medes and Persians. 

29 Then Baltasar gave orders and they clothed Daniel with 
purple and put a chain of gold about his neck, and proclama- 
tion was made concerning him that he was a chief, third in 

50. rank, in the kingdom. And that very night Baltasar the Chal. . 


Ch. VI. DANIEL. 


dean king was slain, and Darius the Mede assumed the king- 
dom, being sixty two years of age. 


VI. |. IT having seemed good in the sight of Darius, he set 


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over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps to be govern- 
ors of provinces throughout his whole dominion; and over 
these he appointed three ministers of whom Daniel was one; 
that the governors might render an account to them, so that the 
king might not be oppressed with business. And Daniel was 
at the head of these. Because there was in him an extraordi- 
nary spirit and the king had set him over his whole kingdom, 
therefore the ministers and the governors sought to find some 
pretext against Daniel. And when they found no pretext, 
lapse or crime with which to charge him, for he was faithful; 
the ministers said, We shall not find any pretext against Da- 
niel except in the ceremonies relating to his God. Then the 
ministers and the governors waited on the king, and said to 
him, King Darius live forever! All that are over thy king- 
dom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and 
toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute 
and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request 
of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, O king; 
he shall be cast into the den of the lions. Now therefore, O° 
king, establish the edict and promulgate it in writing, that the 
decree of the Persians and Medes may not be dispensed with. 
Upon this Darius the king ordered the decree to be written. 
Now when Daniel knew that the decree was passed, he 


went home and the windows in his upper chamber towards 


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Jerusalem were opened for him, and three times a day, kneel- 
ing down on his knees, he prayed and gave thanks before his 
God as he had done heretofore. 

Now those men watched and having found Daniel prais- 
ing and supplicating his God, they went and said to the king, 
O king, hast thou not passed an edict, that every man who 
shall make any request of any god or man for the space of 
thirty days save of thee only, O king, shall be cast into the 
den of the lions? And the king said, It is true; and the decree 
of the Medes and Persians cannot be altered. Then they an- 
swered and said before the king, Daniel, who is one of the 


Ch. VI. DANIEL. 


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captives from Juda, hath not paid obedience to thy decree. 
For three times a day he maketh requests of his God. When 


the king heard this matter he was exceedingly grieved for it 


and strove hard for Daniel to save himand continued till evening 
his endeavours to deliver him. ‘Then the men said to the king, 
Know, O king, that it is decreed by the Medes and Persians, 
That no edict or statute which the king shall pass must be dis- 
pensed with. Then the king gave orders and they brought 
Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. And the king said 
to Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually will him- 
self deliver thee. And when they had brought a stone and put 
it on the mouth of the den, the king caused it to be sealed 
with his own signet and with the signet of his nobles that no- 
thing might be altered in respect to Daniel. Then the king 
went to his house and retired to bed without supper. And 


_ there was no food brought to him and sleep went from him. 


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But God shut the mouths of the lions so that they did not mo- 
lest Daniel. And in the morning the king arose’soon as it was 
light and went in haste to the lions’ den. And when he ap- 
proached the den, he cried with a loud voice, O Daniel, the 
servant of the living God, hath thy God, whom thou servest 
continually, been able to deliver thee from the mouths of the 
lions? Thereupon Daniel said to the king, O king live for- 
ever! My God sent his angel and shut the mouths of the lions 


and they have not hurt me. For before him rectitude was 


found in me; and even in thy sight, O king, I have commit- 
ted no offence. At this the king was exceedingly rejoiced and 
gave order to take Daniel up out of the den. So he was taken © 
up out of the den and there was no manner of hurt found on 
him, because he had trusted in his God. Then the king com- 
manded and they brought the men who had accused Daniel, — 
and they and their sons and their wives were cast into the den 
of the lions. And before they reached the bottom of the den 
the lions had such mastery over them that they broke all their 
bones. Then Darius the king wrote—To all the peoples, tribes 
and languages who dwell in the whole earth, Peace be multi- 
plied to you. From my presence this decree is established, that 
in every government of my kingdom men tremble and be 
struck with awe at the presence of the God of Daniel; for he 


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is the living God and endureth forever, and his kingdom 
can never be destroyed and his dominion will be to the end. 
He supporteth and delivereth and doth signs and wonders in 
heaven and on earth. He it is who hath delivered Daniel from 
the power of the lions. 

So Daniel prospered in the reignof Darius and in the reign 
of Cyrus the Persian. : 


VII. In the first year of Baltasar king of the Chaldeans, Da- 


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niel had a dream and these were the visions of his head on his 
bed and he wrote down this dream of his. ) 

I Daniel beheld, and lo! the four winds of heaven blew 
violently on the great sea; and four great beasts came up out 
of the sea, different one from the other. The first was like a 
lioness, and had wings like those of an eagle. I beheld till her 
wings were plucked off; and she was raised from the earth and 
stood on the feet of a man and a man’s heart was given her. 
And behold the second beast was like a bear; and it stood half 
erect and there were three ribs in its mouth between its teeth, 
and they said to it thus, “ Arise, devour much flesh.” After 
this I looked, and lo ! another beast like a leopard; and it had 
four wings of a bird on it; and this beast had four heads and 
to it dominion was given. After this I beheld, and lo! a fourth 
beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong and its teeth 
of iron! It devoured and brake in pieces! and the residue it 
trampled with its feet. Now this was far different from all the 
beasts which were before it and it had ten horns. 1 attended 
to its horns, and behold another little horn sprouted up in the 
midst of them; and three of the horns which were before 
it were rooted out from before it. And behold in this horn 
there were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking 
great things. And I beheld tillthe thrones were set and an an- 
cient of days was seated. And his garment was white as 
snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool. His throne 
was aflame of fire and his wheels a blazing fire. A river of fire 
rolled before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him 
and myriads of myriads waited on him. The court sat ἀπά 
books were opened. I looked then because of the sound of 
the great words which that horn had spoken, until the beast 

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was slain and destroyed and its body given to be: burned 
with fire. And the government of the rest of the beasts was 
changed and a length of time given them until a time anda 
time. And I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo! with 
the clouds of heaven one like a son of man coming! And he 


᾿ advanced to the Ancient of days and was introduced to him. 


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And to him was given the government and the honour and the ~ 
kingdom ; and all the peoples, tribes and languages are to 
serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which 
shall never pass away, and his kingdom shall not be destroyed. 
As for me, Daniel, my spirit arintecied in my whole frame 
and the vision of my head troubled me. And I went to one 
of them in waiting and made diligent inquiry to learn of 
him concerning all these things and he gave me exact in- 
formation and explained to me the meaning of these things. 
These beasts, which are four, denote that four kingdoms shall 
be raised up on the earth. These shall be removed, and the 


holy ones of the Most High shall take the kingdom and hold it 


to an age of the ages. 

Then I inquired particularly concerning the fourth 
beast, because it was different from every beast, exceedingly 
dreadful. Its teeth were of iron and its claws of brass. It de- 


~ voured and brake in pieces and the residue it trampled with 


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its feet. And concerning the ten horns, which were on its 
head, and that other, which sprouted up and shook off some of 
the first; and which had eyes and a mouth speaking great 
things and the appearance of which was greater than the rest, 
I beheld and that horn made war on the holy ones -and pre- 
vailed against them until the Ancient of days came and gave 
judgment for the holy ones of the Most High, and the time 
came and the holy ones possessed the kingdom. And he said, 

With regard to the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth king- 
dom on the earth which shall surpass all the kingdoms and 


| devour all the earth and trample down and cut to pieces. And 


its ten horns denote that ten kingdoms shall be raised up; and 
after them another shall be raised up which shall exceed in 
evils all those before and shall humble three kings and shall 
speak words against the Most High and wear out the holy ones. 
of the Most High and think of changing times and law, and 


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this shall be put in its power for a time and times and the half 
of atime. When the court hath sat they will change this go- 
vernment to abolish and destroy it utterly. For the kingdom 
and the dominion and the majesty of the kings who are under 
the whole heaven, is given to the holy ones of the Most High. 
And his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all 
the governments shall serve and obey him. To this is the end 
of this word. 

As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me much and 
my countenance was changed. But I kept the matter in mine 
own heart. | 


Vill. IN the third year of Baltasar the king a vision appear- 


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ed to me. After the first vision which appeared to me, I Da- 
niel was at Susoi the palace which is in the province of Ailam; 
and being on the bank of the Oubal, I lifted up mine eyes and 
looked, and lo a ram stood before the Oubal and it had lofty 
horns and one was higher than the other; and the highest 
sprang up last. And I saw the ram butting westward and north- 
ward and southward, and of all the beasts none could stand be- 
fore him nor was there any to deliver out of his hand. So he 
acted according to his pleasure and became great. And while 
I was considering, behold a he-goat came from the south west 
over the face of the whole earth and he did not seem to touch 
the ground. And the goat had a horn between his eyes. And 
he came to the ram which had two horns and which I saw 
standing before the Oubaland ran up to him with all his might. 
I saw him indeed coming up to the ram and he was exasper- 
ated against him, and he smote the ram and broke his two 
horns and the ram had not power to stand before him. So he 
threw him on the ground and trampled him, and there was 
none to deliver the ram out of his hand. And the goat of the 
goats became very great and when he was in full strength, 
that great horn of his was broken; and four others sprang up 
from under it towards the four winds of heaven. And out 
from the first of them there came forth one strong horn 
which became very great towards the south and towards the 
host, and its greatness reached even to the host of heaven.. 
And there fell on the earth some of the host of heaven and 


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some of the stars, and these were trodden down. And until 
the captain general should deliver the captivity, even by rea- 
son of him the sacrifice was disturbed; and he was prosper- 
ed; andthe sanctuary is to be desolated; and sin was permitted 
against the sacrifice; and this righteousness was cast on the 
ground; so he acted and was prospered. And I heard a holy 
one speaking; and a holy one said to the Phelmoni who spoke, 
“How long shall this vision last, respecting the sacrifice which 
is taken away, and the sin of desolation which is permitted ; 
and the sanctuary and the host be trodden down?”? And he 
said to him, Even till there shall be of an evening and a morn- 
ing two thousand four hundred days. ‘Then shall the sanctuary 
be cleansed. | 

And when I Daniel had seen the vision and sought the 
meaning, then lo! there stood before me an appearance like 
that of a man. And I heard a voice of a man amidst the Ou- 
bal and it called and said, ‘‘ Gabriel, instruct him respecting 
the vision.”” So he came and stood near where I was stand- 
ing. And when he came, I was struck with terror and fell on 
my face. And he said to me, Son of man, understand ; for 
this vision also is for the end of a time. And while he was 
speaking to me, I fell flat with my face on the ground. Then 
he touched me and set me on my feet, and said, Behold I make 
known to thee the things which shall be in the last days of the 
indignation ; for this vision also is for the end of a time... The 
ram which thou sawest which had the horns, is the king of 
the Medes and Persians. The goat of the goats, is the king of 
the Grecians ; and the great horn which was between his eyes Ὁ 
is the first king. Now as upon this being broken, four horns 
shot up from under it, four kings of that nation of his will 
be raised up, but not by their own might. And in the last Ὁ 
days of their kingdom, their sins being come to the full,a ~ 
king will be raised up of an unblushing countenance, skilled 
im problems, and his power will be great, and he will destroy 
things which are objects of admiration and will prosper and 
act and destroy mighty men, and aholy people. And the yoke 
of his chain will prosper; and by his hand and by his heart, 
deceit will be magnified, and with deceit he will destroy many _ 
and for the destruction of many he will be raised up and will 


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break them like eggs with his hands. Now the vision of the 
evening and the morning, which was mentioned is true. Seal 
thou therefore the vision, for it 15 for many days. 

Upon this I Daniel was confined to my bed and sick.— 
And when I arose I did the king’s business. And I was asto- 
nished at the vision; but none understood it. 


IN the first year of Darius, the son of Assuerus of the 
seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chal- 
deans, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of 
the years, which was a word of the Lord to Jeremias the pro- 
phet, for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem, 
was seventy years. Therefore I turned my face to the Lord 
my God, to seek a prayer and supplication by fasting and 
sackcloth. And I prayed to the Lord my God and made con- 
fession and said, O Lord, the God great and marvellous, who 
keepest thy covenant and thy mercy for them who love thee 
and keep thy commandments! We have sinned; we have com- 
mitted iniquity; we have transgressed and apostatised and 
tured away from thy commandments, and from thy judg- 
ments, and have not hearkened to thy servants the prophets 
who spoke in thy name to our kings and our chiefs and our 
fathers and to all the people of the land. To thee, O Lord, be- 
longeth righteousness; but to us confusion of face as at this 
day—to the man Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and 
to all Israel—and_ to those near and to them far off, in every 
land where thou hast scattered them for their breach of cove- 
nant of which they have been guilty. In thee, O Lord, is our 
righteousness. Though to us belongeth confusion of face— 
to our kings, and our chiefs and our fathers, who have sinned. 
against thee; with the Lord our God are tender mercies and 
forgivenesses. Because we apostatised and did not hearken to 
the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he 
set before us by the ministry of his servants the prophets;, 
and all Israel transgressed thy law, and declined to hearken to 
thy voice; therefore upon us came the curse and the execra- 
tion which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. 
Because we sinned against him, therefore he confirmed his 
words which he spoke against us and against our judges who: 


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judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as never 
happened under the whole heaven; as was the case in Jerusa- 
lem. According to what is written in the law of Moses all 
those evils have come upon us. We indeed did not supplicate 
the favour of the Lord our God, by turning from all our wick- 
edness, therefore that we might be made sensible of all thy 
truth, the Lord hath indeed been watchful and hath brought 
upon us these things. For the Lord our God is righteous in 


* every act of his which he hath done, and we have not hearkened 


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to his voice. 

Now, O Lord our God, who broughtest thy people out of 
the land of Egypt with a strong hand and who hast made thy- 
self a great name as at this day; we have sinned, we have com- 
mitted iniquity. Mercy, O Lord, is thine in all things; let thy 
wrath, I beseech thee, be turned away and thine indignation 
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because we have 
sinned, therefore for our iniquities and the iniquities of our fa- 
thers, Jerusalem and thy people are become an object of re- 
proach among all those around us. But now, O Lord our God, 
hearken to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications; 
and let thy face shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate. 
For thine own sake, O Lord, incline, O my God, thine ear and 
hear. Open thine eyes and behold our desolation and that of 
thy city which is called by thy name. For we do not for our 
own righteousness present our piteous case before thee; but 
we cast ourselves upon thy tender mercies, O Lord, which are 
many. O Lord hear! O Lord, be appeased! Attend, O Lord! 
Defer not, O my God, for thine own sake! for thy city and thy 
people are called by thy name. 

Now whilst I was still speaking and praying and confessing 
mine own sins and the sins of my people Israel, and present- 
ing my supplication before the Lord my God for the mount 
of the sanctuary; even whilst I was uttering this prayer, be- 
hold a man, Gabriel, whom I saw in the former vision, came 
flying and touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice 
and instructed me and conversed with me and said, Daniel, I 
am now come to teach thee knowledge. At the beginning of 
thy supplication a word went forth, and I am come to tell thee; 
for thou art aman greatly beloved. Be.instructed therefore by 


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the decree, and understand by the vision. Seventy weeks are 
set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin 
offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out in- 
iquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bring- 
ing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and 


‘prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies. ‘Therefore thou 


art to know and understand, that from the going forth of a 
word for returning an answer and for building Jerusalem un- 
tilan Anointed ruler are seven weeks, and sixty two weeks. 
They shall indeed return and a street shall be built and a wall, 


_and these times shall be emptied out, and after the sixty two 


weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, though there is no crime 
in him; and he, with the ruler who is coming, will destroy the 
city and the sanctuary. They shall be destroyed with a deluge, 
and even to the end of the war determined on in course, with 
desolations. Now one week shall confirm a covenant for many 
and in the half of that week my sacrifice and libation shall be 
taken away. And upon the temple shall be an abomination οἵ. 
the desolations, and at the end of a time, an end shall be put 
to that desolation. 


IN the third year of Cyrus, king of the Persians, a word was 
revealed to Daniel, surnamed Baltasar. And the word 15 true 
and great power and knowledge was given him by the vision. 
In those days, I Daniel, had been mourning three weeks. I had 


not eaten palatable bread, nor had flesh or wine entered my 


mouth, neither had I anointed myself to the full end of three 
weeks. On the twenty fourth of the first month when I was on 
the bank of the great river, namely, Tigris Eddekel, I raised 
mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man clothed with a flowing 
robe and his loins girded with gold of Ophaz, and his body 
like a Tharsis, and his face tke the appearance of lightning, 
and his eyes like lamps of fire, and his arms and his αὐ like 
the appearance of sparkling brass, and the sound of his words 
like the sound of a multitude. 

Now, I Daniel alone saw this vision. The men who were 
with me did not see it; but great consternation fell upon them 
and they fled for fear;.so I was left alone. And when I beheld 
this great vision, there was no strength left in me. Even my 


Ch. 


ΧΙ. , DANIEL. 


comeliness was changed into corruption and 1 retained no 


9 strength; but I heard the sound of his words. And when I 


heard him, I was struck with awe, and my face was on the 


10 ground. And lo! a hand touched me and raised me up upon 


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my knees. And he said to me, Daniel, man greatly beloved, 
gain knowledge by the words which I speak to thee and stand 
up; for I am now sent to thee. And when he said this to me 


12 I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, Fear not, Daniel: 


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for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to gain 
knowledge and afflict thyself before the Lord thy God, thy 
words were heard, and I came at thy words; but the chief 
of the kingdom of the Persians stood in my way twenty one 
days, when lo! Michael the first of the chiefs came to help 
me, and I left him there with the chief of the kingdom of the 
Persians, and am come to teach thee what will befal thy 
people in the last days. Because this vision is for days to 
come.— 

Now while he was speaking to me in such terms, I turned 
my countenance to the earth, and was in amaze ; and behold 
a likeness as it were of a son of man touched my lips, where- 
upon I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who 
was standing before me, O my lord, at the sight of thee my 
vitals are changed, and I have no strength ; how then can thy 
servant, O my lord, speak with this my lord? As for me, from 
that moment my strength could not support me and there was 
no spirit left in me. Then an appearance like that of a man 
touched me again, and strengthened me and said to me, Man 
much beloved, fear not: peace be to thee. Take courage and be 
strong. And when he had spoken to me I recovered strength 
and said, Let my lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me. 


Then he said, O that thou knewest that for which I came to — 


thee, then would I return to fight for the chief of the Persians, 
for as I was coming, the chief of the Grecians came. But I 
will tell thee that only which is ordered in a writing of truth. 
There is indeed none with me solicitous about him, but only 
Michael your chief. As for me, I in the first year of Cyrus, 

was his strength and power. And now I will tell the 


2 truth: Behold yet three kings shall be raised up in Persia, 


Ch, XI. DANIEL. 


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and the fourth shall abound in great wealth above all. And 
after he hath gotten this his great wealth he will be stirred up 
against all the kingdoms of the Greeks. But there will be 
raised up a mighty king who will be lord of a great dominion 
and will do according to his pleasure. But as soon as his 
kingdom hath been set up, it will be broken in pieces and di- 
vided towards the four winds of heaven, but not to his utmost 
bounds, nor according to his dominion which he ruled. For 
his kingdom will be torn to pieces, and given to others be- 
sides these. And the king of the south will grow strong; 
and one of these chiefs will grow strong against him, and will 
rule over a great dominion. And after his years they will 
come toan agreement. Anda daughter of a king of the south 
will come to a king of the north for the purpose of making 
leagues with him. But he will not retain strength of arm, nor 
shall his seed stand; for she will be delivered up and they who 
bring her, both the young woman, and he who strengthen. 
eth her in those times. Out of the blossom of her root one 
having a government of his own will be raised up, and will 
come to this power, and enter the strong holds of the king of 
the north, and perform exploits in them and prevail. And he 
will carry their gods with their molten images, all his preci- 
ous vessels of silver and gold, with captives to Egypt; and 
he will stand above the king of the north who will come to 
the kingdom of the king of the south; and return again to 
his own land. But his sons will collect a multitude among 
many, and one will come with effect, and like a deluge, and 
will pass through and establish himself and the war will be 
carried even to απὸ fortress. ‘Then will the king of the south 
be furiously enraged, and he will come out and fight the king 
of the north, who will array a great multitude, but this mul- 
titude will be delivered into his hand. And when he shall 
take this multitude, his heart will be elated, and he will over- 
throw myriads, but will not prevail. For the king of the north 
will return, and bring a multitude greater than the former and 
at the end of times of years invade the frontiers with a great 
army, and. with much wealth. And in those times many will 
rise up against the king of the south, and the sons of the pests 
of thy people will be eed up to establish a phantom, but 
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they will be weak. For a king of the north will come and cast 
up a mount and take strong cities. Though the arms of the 
king of the south will make a stand, and his chosen men will 
be raised up, yet there will not be power to withstand. So 
that he who cometh against him, will do according to his 
pleasure, and there is none able to stand before him. So he 
will stand in the land of Sabei, and it will be perfected by his 
hand. Then he will set his face to enter with the strength of 
his whole kingdom, and will settle all things equitably with 
him, and will give him a daughter of the women with a view 
to corrupt her, but she will not continue in his interest, nor | 
be for him. Then he will turn his face to the islands, and take 
many, and cause chiefs to cease their reproaches : but his own 
reproach will be turned upon him. Then he will turn his face 
to the strength of his own land, and will be weak and fall, and 
will not be found. And from his root there will be set upon 
his throne a plant of royalty plundering, and taxing the glory 
ofa kingdom. And in those days he also will be destroyed, 
but not with open violence nor in battle. And on his throne 
one will be settled, who was despised and on whom they did 


Ἢ not confer the honour of a kingdom. But he will come to it 
22 peaceably and obtain the kingdom by obsequiousness. And 


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the arms of the overwhelmer will be overwhelmed at his pre- 
sence, and they with the ruler of the covenant will be destroy- 
ed. Because of the associations against him, he will practise 
guile and come up and overpower them with a small nation and 
come peaceably into rich provinces, and do what neither his 
fathers, nor his fathers’ fathers ever did. Plunder. and spoils 
and wealth he will scatter among them; and against Egypt he 
will forecast devices even for atime. And his power and his 
heart will be stirred up against a king of the south, with a 
great army; and the king of the south will join battle with an 
exceeding great and powerful army; but they will not stand ; 
for they will form devices against him and devour his substance 
and crush him, and armies will be overwhelmed, and many 
wounded shall fall. ‘Then both the kings with their hearts bent 
on mischief will speak lies at one table. But it will not prosper. 
Because an end is still put off for a time, therefore he will return 
to his own land with much wealth and his heart will be against 


Chic Xl. DANIEL. 


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At the time he will return and come to the south; but this 
last expedition will not be like the first: for the Kitians who 
set out at the same time will arrive, and he will be humbled. 
Then he will return and will be inflamed with wrath against 
the holy covenant. And he will act and return and keep up 
an intelligence with them who have forsaken the holy cove- 
nant. And seeds out of him will spring up, and the sanctu- 
ary of the dominion will be polluted; and the daily sacrifice 
will be removed; and there will be set up an abomination 
which hath caused desolation, which they who break cove- 
nant will bring in by flatteries. But the people who acknow- 
ledge their God will take courage and act. And the men of 
understanding among the people will keep up an intelligence 
for many purposes ; but they will be weakened by sword and 
by fire, and by captivity, and by plundering, for days. And 
when they are weak, they will be helped with a little help. 
And many will join them by flatteries. Then some of the wise 
will be weak that they may be tried and chosen, and that at 
atime the end may be revealed. Because it is still for a time, 
therefore he will act according to his pleasure. And this king 
will be exalted and magnified above every god, and will speak 
swelling words, and prosper until the indignation is completed: 
for it is coming to a completion. Though with all the gods of 
his fathers, he will not keep up any intelligence, including 
even the desire of women—though he will not pay respect 
to any thing divine, because he will magnify himself above 
them all, yet in his place he will glorify god Maozim—even 
a god which his fathers knew not, he will glorify with gold 
and silver, and precious stones, and with desirable things, and 
act for the fortresses of them who have taken refuge with a 
strange God, and he will multiply glory and subject many to 
them and distribute lands for gifts. And at the end of a time 
there will be conflicts with the king of the south, and against 
him there will be brought a king of the north, with chariots 
and horsemen, and many ships, which shall invade the land, 
and he will break in pieces and pass through and come to the 
Jand of Sabaim, and many will be weak. But these will escape 
out of his hand, namely, Edom and Moab and the children 


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of Ammon. And he will stretch forth his hand against this 
land, and the land of Egypt will be no security. And he will 
be master of the hidden stores of gold and silver, and of all 
the desirable things of Egypt, and of the Lybians and Ethi- 


opians, in their strong holds. And when reports and disturb- 


ances shall trouble him from the east, and from the north, 
he will then come with great wrath to destroy many, and he 
will pitch his tent at Ephadanus between the seas on the holy 
mountain Sabaim. Then he will come to his portion, and there 
is none to deliver him. 


XII. And at that time Michael the great chief, who hath been 
_ over the children of thy people will stand up, and there will 


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be atime of tribulation—a tribulation such as hath not been 
since there was a nation on the earth even to this time. At that 
time all thy people who are enrolled in the book shall be saved. 


‘And many of them who sleep in mounds of earth shall be 


raised up, some for everlasting life and some for disgrace and 
everlasting shame. And they who are wise shall shine like 
the brightness of the firmament, and some of the many right- 
eous like the stars for the ages and longer. 

As for thee, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book 
till the time of accomplishment; until many be taught and 
knowledge abound. 

-Then I Daniel looked, and lo! two others stood, one on 
this bank of the river and the other on the other bank of the 
river, And one said to the man clothed with the flowing robes 
who was over the water of the river, How long to the end of 
these wonderful things which thou hast spoken? And I heard 
the man clothed with the fine robes who was over the water 
of the river. He lifted up his right and his‘left hand to heaven 
and sware by him who liveth forever and ever that it will be 
until atime of times and the half of a time. When an end is 
put to the dispersion, they will know all these things. As for 
me though I heard I did not understand. So I said, Lord, 
What will be the issue of these things? And he said, Come. 
Daniel. Because these words are shut up and sealed until the 
end of atime. Though many be chosen and made white and 
purified and sanctified, and transgressors transgress ; yet no - 
transgressor will understand but the prudent will understand. 


Ch. XID | DANIEL. 


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Now from the time of the change of the daily sacrifice, when 
the abomination of desolation shall be set up there will be a 
thousand two hundred and ninety days. Happy he who will 
wait and come to a thousand three hundred and thirty five 
days. But as for thee, come and go to rest, for still there will 
be days and hours to the final accomplishment. And thou shalt 
stand up for thy portion at the end of days. 


. HOSEA. 


A word of the Lord which came to Hosea the son of Beeri 
in the days of Ozias and Joatham and Achaz and Ezekias 
kings of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joas 
king of Israel. 


The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. 


I. WHEN the Lord said to Hosea, ‘‘ Go, take thee a wife 
of whoredom, and children of whoredoms, since: the land is 
going and will go a whoring from the Lord,”’ he then went 
and took Gomer a daughter of Debelaim: and when she con- 
ceived and bore him a son, the Lord said to him, “ Call his 
name Jezrael; for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood 
of Jezrael on the house of Jehu, and cause the kingdom of the 
house of Israel to cease. And it shall come to pass in that day 
that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael.”” And 
when she conceived again and bore a daughter, he said to him, 
“¢ Call her name, /Vot-compassionated; for I will no longer con- - 
tinue to have compassion on the house of Israel, but. will set 
myself against them. But on the children of Juda I will have 
compassion and I will save them by the Lord their God, and 
will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle nor by 
horses nor by horsemen.”’ 

And when she had weaned .Vot-compassionated, she con- 
ceived again and bore a son, and he said, ‘‘ Call his name 
Not-my-people, since you are not my people and Iam not your 
God.”’ (Now the number of the children of Israel was like 
the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.) 


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‘* But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said 
to them, “‘ You are not my people,” they shall be called chil- 
dren of the Living God, and the children of Juda and the 
children of Israel shall be gathered together and shall appoint 
for themselves one head and come up out of the land. Because 

great will be the day of Jezrael; say ye to your brother, My peo- 


2 ple, and to your sister, Compassionated ; emplead your mother, 


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emplead, because with regard to her, is she not my wife? And as 
for me,am not] herhusband? Therefore I will remove her forni- 
cation from before meand her adultery from between her breasts. 
That I may do this I will strip her naked, and reduce her to 
the state she was in at her birth. I will indeed make her deso- 
late, and order-her to a land without water and kill her with 


: thirst, and on her children I will not have compassion. Be- 


cause they are children of fornication—because their mother 
hath committed whoredom—she, who brought them forth 
hath acted shamefully—because she said, “‘ I will go after my 
lovers, who give me my bread and my water, and my apparel 
and my fine linens, mine oil and all things convenient for me;”’ 
for this behold I will hedge up her way with thorns; and block 
up her ways that she may not find her path. Though she fol- 
low her lovers she shall not overtake them; though she seek 
them, she shall not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go 
and return to my former husband, for it was then better with 
me than now. She indeed did not acknowledge that I gave 
her the corn and wine and oil; and multiplied silver for her : 
but she made ornaments of gold and silver for Baal: there- 
fore I will turn and take away my corn in its season, and my 
wine in its appointed time; and I will take away my garments 
and my fine linens, that she may not cover her nakedness : 
and I will now disclose her impurity before her lovers ; and 
none shall deliver her out of my hand. I will indeed turn 
away all her pleasures, her festivals, and her new moons and 
her sabbaths and all her solemn assemblies. And I will lay 
waste her vineyards and her fig orchards—all those things re- 
specting which she said, ‘‘ These are my rewards which my 
lovers gave πιο; and I will make them for a memorial; and 
the wild beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and the . 


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reptiles of the earth shall devour them. And 1 will punish her 
for the days of the daleims in which she sacrificed to them. 
When she had put on her ear-rings and her jewels, she went 
after her lovers and forgot me, saith the Lord; therefore behold 
I will cause her to wander, and order her to a wilderness and 
speak to her heart. And thence I will give her for her posses- 
sions, even the valley of Achor to open her understandmg: and 
she shall be humbled there as in the days of her youth, even as 
in the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt. And it 
shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that she will call 
me My husband; and no more call me Baalim. I will indeed 
take away the names of the Baalims out of her mouth, and their 
names shall no more be mentioned. And in that day I will 
make a covenant for them, with the wild beasts of the field and 
the birds of the air and the reptiles of the earth; and bow and 
sword and battle I will crush out of the land; and I will settle 
thee securely and betroth thee to myself forever. I will indeed 
betroththee to myself by righteousness and by judgmentand by 
compassion and by tender mercies: and I will betroth thee to 
myself by fidelity; and thou shalt acknowledge the Lord. And 
it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will 


2 hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth, and 


the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil, and they 


; shall Hearken to Jezrael; and I will plant her for myself in the 


land, and love her who was not beloved; and to them who 
were not my people I will say, ‘“Thou art my people:”’ and they 
will say, Thou the Lord art my God. 

II. Again the Lord said to me, Still go and love a wo- 
man who loveth wickedness, even an adulteress, as God loveth 
the children of Israel, though they look to strange gods and 
love cakes with dried grapes. So J hired one for myself for fif- 
teen pieces of silver and a gomar of barley and a nebel of wine, 
and said to her, “Thou shalt continue many days for me and 
shalt not play the harlot nor have commerce with man, then I 
will be for thee; for the children of Israel shall continue many 
days without a king and without a chief, and without a sacri- 
fice and without an altar and without a priesthood, and with- 
out manifestations; and afterwards the children of Israel will 
return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; 


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and will be amazed at the Lord and at his goodness in the last 
days. 


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the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of this land; 
because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God 
in the land—Cursing and lying and murder and theft and 
adultery are burst out on the land, and blood mingleth with 
blood; therefore the Jand shalfmourn and be wasted with all its 
inhabitants, with the wild beasts of the fields and with the rep- 
tiles of the earth, and with the birds of the air. Even the fishes 
of the sea shall fail. 

(J) Inorder that none may be judged, that none may re- 
prove, this people of mine shall be like a contradicted priest, and 
shall be weak for years; and with thee the prophet shall be without 
strength. I have compared thy mother to the night: my people 
is like one that hath not knowledge: because thou hast rejected 
knowledge, therefore I will reject thee from being my priest: 
as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I also will forget 
thy children. In proportion to their increase they sinned against 
me; I will turn their glory in to shame. Shall they cat the sin 
offerings of my people and by their iniquities support their 
lives? It shall indeed be that as is the people so shall be the 
priest; I-will punish them for their ways and retribute to him 
his devices. Though they eat they shall not be filled, they 


11 have committed fornications, and they cannot prosper. Because 


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they forsook the Lord, to attend to fornication and wine, there- 
fore the heart of my people embraced drunkenness. They con- 
sulted by symbols and gave them answers by their staves. By 
a spirit of fornication they were led astray; and they went a 
whoring from their God. They sacrificed on the tops of the 
mountains, and on the hills they burned incense, under an oak 
and a beech and a shady tree, because shade is good. For this 
cause your daughters will commit whoredom and your wives 
adultery; and I will not punish your daughters, when they 
commit whoredom, nor your daughters in law when they com- 
mit adultery. Because they conver ἐπ τὶ δ ὦ harlots and sacrificed 


(J) Jehovah. (p) The prophet speaks. 


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with prostitutes, therefore my people, who were without un- 
derstanding, were entangled with fornication. As for thee, Is- 
rael, continue not in ignorance; and thou Juda go not to Gal- 
gala. Either go not up to the house of On, or swear not by the 
living Lord. Because Israel ran about madly like a heifer 
stung by a gad fly, the Lord will now feed them like a lamb in 
a roomy place. Ephraim associating with idols, laid stumbling 
blocks for himself. They addicted themselves to the Chanan- 
ites; they, went on in a continued course of whoredom; they 
loved dishonour because of its revelry; thou art a whirl of wind 
in its wings; but they shall be putto shame because of their altars. 

IV. (p) Hear these things ye priests; and attend ye 
house of Israel, and ye household of the king give ear; for 
against you is this indictment, because you are become a snare 
in the watch tower; and like a net spread upon Itaburion, 
which they who hunt wild beasts have fixed up. 

(J) As for me, Iwas your instructer. I acknowledged 
Ephraim, when Israel did not withdraw from me. Now because 
Ephraim went a whoring, Israel is polluted. They did not apply 
their thoughts to return to their God. Because there is a spirit of 
whoredom in them, and they have not acknowledged the Lord, 
therefore the haughtiness of Israel shall be humbled at his 
presence, and Israel and Ephraim shall be weakened for their 
iniquities. When Juda also shall be weakened with them, 
they will go with sheep and young bulls to seek the Lord, but 
they shall not find him, because he hath withdrawn from them. 
Because they have forsaken the Lord, because strange children 
have been born to them: the canker worm shall now devour 
them and their portions. 

(p) Sound a trumpet on the mounts; raise a shout on the 
high places; proclaim in the house of On, Benjamin is con- 


9 “Peed Ephraim is become a desolation in the day of rebuke. 


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(J) Among thetribes of Israel Ihave given faithful warnings. 
The chiefs of Juda are become like the removers of bounda- 
ries, upon them I will pour out my fury like water. Ephraim 
tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment; 
because he set the example of going after vanities, therefore I 
will be like a terror to Ephraim, and like a goad to the house 

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of Juda. When Ephraim saw his disorder and Juda felt his 
pain, though Ephraim went to the Assyrians, and sent ambas- 
sadors to king Iarim; yet he could not heal you, nor could your 


14 pain be assuaged; for I am like a panther to Ephraim, and like 


a lion to the house of Juda. When I tear, I will go and take 


15 and there shall be no deliverer. I will sally forth and return tomy 


VI. 


place until they are made desolate, then they will seek my face. 

In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, ‘‘Come, 
let us return to the Lord our God, for it is he who hath torn 
and he can heal us. He can smite, and into our wounds he can 
pour balm; in two days he can restore us to health; on the 
third day we shall be raised up and live before him. Let us 
acknowledge—let us continue our pursuit to know the Lord; 
sure as the morning we shall find him. He will come like rain 
for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth.”’ 

What shall I do for thee, Ephraim? What shall I do for 
thee, Juda? As for your goodness, it was like a morning cloud— 
like the transient dew of the morning: for this cause I mowed 
down your prophets, I slew them with the word of my mouth, 
and my judgment shall go forth as light; for I desire mercy 
rather than sacrifice, and an acknowledgment of God rather 
than whole burnt offerings. As for them, they are like man 
transgressing a covenant. There the city Galaad hath contemn- 
ed me; it is a framer of vanities, a troubler of water, and thy 
strength was that of a mighty robber. The priests concealed 
the way; they acted the murder at Sikima. Because they com- 
mitted iniquity in the house of Israel, I saw there the horrible for- 
nication of Ephraim. Israel is polluted. Now Juda begin an inga- 
thering for thyself. When I bring back the captivity of my peo- 


Vil. ple. When I have healed Israel, then shall be disclosed the 


iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria. Because 
they have framed lies, therefore ἃ thief shall come in to him, a 
sculking robber shall be in his way: that they may chime toge- 
ther like them who smg in unison. I remembered all their 
wickedness, now their own devices have encompassed them. 
They were all open to my view. They made kings glad by 
their wickedness and chiefs by their lies. They all burn with 
adultery, like an oven for baking cakes, which, after putting in 
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the fire, after mixing the dough, is kept burning, till the dough 
is leavened, 

With regard to the days of your kings, the chiefs had be- 
gun to be inflamed with wine. He had stretched forth his hand 
with turbulent men. Because their hearts were heated like an 
oven, when they had revelled the whole night, Ephraim fell 
fast asleep. The morning came, he was heated again like a 
flaming fire. They were all hot as an oven and devoured their 
judges; all their kings fell; there was none among them who 
appealed to me. Ephraim was mingled among his tribes; 
Ephraim was a cake under ashes, which had not been turned. 
Strangers devoured his strength and he did not know it; grey 
hairs grew upon him and he did not perceive it. 

(p) Though it was evident that the haughtiness of Israel 
would be humbled, yet they did not turn to the Lord their 
God, nor seek him diligently for all this. 

(J) Ephraim indeed was like a silly dove which had no 
understanding; he called upon Egypt: and they went to the 
Assyrians. Let them go where they will, I will spread my net 
for them, and bring them down like the birds of the air, and 
instruct them with the report of one another’s affliction. Alas! 
for them, because they have departed from me. They are faint 
hearted, because they have transgressed against me. ‘Though I 
redeemed them, yet they spoke lies against me. Their hearts 
do not cry to me; but only make moans on their beds—for 
corn and wine they were deeply affected. By me they were 
instructed—I indeed strengthened their arms; but they devis- 
ed evils against me. They were turned back to no purpose. 
They were like a bended bow. Let their chiefs fall by the 
sword for the folly of their tongue; let the derision they en- 


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dirt, like an eagle darting upon the house of the Lord. Because 
they have transgressed my covenant, and have sinned against 
my law, will they cry to me, “Ὁ God, we have known thee?” | 
Because Israel turned away good things they met with an ene- 
my. They made kings for themselves but not by me—they 
set up a government and did not consult me; of their silver 
and gold they made idols for themselves that they might be 
utterly cut off. Away with thy calf, O Samaria! my wrath is 


Ch. ΙΧ. HOSEA. 


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kindled against them. How long shall things which cannot be 
made clean be in Israel? A carpenter made it; it is no God. 


7 Because thy calf, O Samaria, was an imposture—because they 


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sowed blasted seed, therefore the catastrophe was correspon- 
dent; there is not a handful capable of yielding meal. And had 
it succeeded, strangers would have devoured it. Israel is swal- 
lowed up—he is now among the nations like an useless vessel, 


9 because he went up to the Assyrians. While Ephraim conti- 


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nued at home he sprouted again. They loved gifts, therefore 
they shall be delivered up to the nations. I will now take 
charge of them, and they shall cease a little while from anoint- 
ing aking and chiefs. Because Ephraim multiplied altars for 
sins—altars were to him objects of love; I will prescribe for 
him a multitude. Though his rites were devised for other pur- 
poses, the altars were objects of love. For what purpose soe- 
ver they offer sacrifices and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept 
them; he will now remember their iniquities and punish their 
sins. They turned back to Egypt, therefore among the As- 
syrians they shall eat unclean things. Israel indeed forgot his 
Maker and built fanes, and Juda multiplied fenced cities; but 
into these cities of his I will send a fire, and it shall devour 
those buildings of theirs. cea 


IX. Rejoice not, Israel; nor be elated like the tribes, because 


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thou hast gone a whoring from thy God. ‘Thou didst love 
gifts on evéry corn floor; floor and press have disowned them, 
and the wine hath disappointed them. ‘They did not dwell in 
the land of the Lord: Ephraim became an inhabitant of Egypt; 
therefore among the Assyrians they shall eat unclean things. 
They did not pour out wine to the Lord nor offer him sweet 


Incense; their sacrifices shall be to them like the bread of af- 


fliction; all that eat thereof shall be polluted. Seeing their fu- 
neral loaves cannot come into the house of the Lord, what will 
you do on the day of a solemn assembly; and on a day of a 
festival of the Lord? For this cause behold they are going 
from the misery of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them 
and Machmas shall bury them. As for their silver, destruc- 
tion shall inherit it. Thorns shall be in their habitations. The 
days of the visitation are come; at hand are the days of thy re- ᾿ 
compence: and Isracl shall be afflicted like the prophet who 


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was struck with horror—the man who had been inspired. By 
the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness was increased. 

(p) Ephraim was a watchman with God, a prophet was a ~ 
cunning snare in all his ways, they had fixed a madness by a 
house of God; they were corrupt as in the days of Gibeah. He 
will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. 

(7) I found Israel as a bunch of grapes in a wilderness; 
and I saw their fathers like an early watcher in a fig orchard. 
They went to Belphagor and abandoned themselves to shame, 
and became abominable, compared with the beloved. Ephraim 
is flown like a bird; their glories from parentage, births and 
conceptions are gone. For though they bring up their children, 
they shall be bereaved of them from among men: for (and alas 
for them! my flesh is of them) Ephraim, as I have seen, have 
roused their children for a hunt—even Ephraim hath, that he 
may lead out his children to a fatal conflict. Give them— 

(p) (O Lord what wilt thou give them?) 

(J) —A womb incapable of bearing children and dry breasts. 
All their wickedness was occasioned by Galgal; because I hat- 
ed them there on account of the wickedness of their devices, 
I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer continue 
to love them. All their chiefs are become rebellious. Ephraim 
is in distress. His roots are withered. He shall no more pro- 
duce fruit. For though they bring forth, I will slay the belov- 
ed fruit of the womb. God will cast them off because they 
hearkened not to him; and they shall be wanderers among the 
nations. 

Israel was a vine with beautiful branches: the fruit there- 
of was abundant. In proportion to the abundance of his fruit 
he multiplied altars: in proportion to the good things of his 
land he erected pillars. They divided their hearts; they shall 
now be destroyed. He will demolish their altars. Their pillars 
shall be in extreme distress. Because they will now say, “‘We 
have no king, because we feared not the Lord.” But as for this 
king, what can he do for us? Speaking words, false pretences, 
will he make a covenant? Will judgment spring up like a 
weed in an uncultivated field? Let the inhabitants of Samaria 
sojourn with the calf of the house of On, because its people 
mourned for it. Now as they provoked it they should rejoice 


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at its glory—that it hath been removed from them. They in- 
deed having bound it, carried it to the Assyrians, as a present 
to the king Iarim. As an homage gift of Ephraim he will re- 
ceive it, and Israel shall be exposed to shame by his counsel. 
Samaria hath cast away her king as a chip on the surface of wa- 
ter. The altars of On, the stumbling blocks of Israel shall in- 
deed be taken away; thorns and thistles shall grow on their al- 
tars, and they will say to the hills, cover us, and to the 
mounts, Fall upon us. From the time of those mounts, Israel 
sinned: it was there they stood. Should not battle against these 
children of iniquity overtake them on this mount, to chastise 
them? Peoples shall indeed be gathered against them, when 
they are corrected for their two iniquities. Ephraim is a heifer 
taught to love victory; but I will come against her beautiful 
neck; I will bring Ephraim into subjection; I will cause Juda 
to keep silence; Jacob shall wrestle for himself. 

(p) Sow for yourselves for righteousness; gather in the 
fruit of life. Light up for yourselves the light of knowledge. 
Seek the Lord until the fruits of righteousness come for you. 
Why have you concealed impiety and gathered in the iniqui- 
ties thereof? You have eaten false fruit. 

(J) Because thou hast trusted in thy sins, and in the multi- 
tude of thine army, therefore destruction shall be raised up 
among thy people; and all thy fortifications shall be swept away, 
as chief Salamin was out of the house of Jeroboam. In the 
days of battle a mother was dashed to pieces upon her chil- 
dren. In this manner I will deal with you, O house of Israel, 
because of the perverseness of your iniquities. 

(p) arly in the morning they hee been rejected! the 
king of Israel is cast off! 

(J) When Israel was young I loved him, and I called his 
children out of Egypt. The more I called them, the more 
they ran from my presence. They sacrificed to the Baalims, 
and burned incense to graven images; therefore I bound 
Ephraim’s feet. I took him up m my arms. When they did 
not know that I heal by the destruction of men, I bound them 
with the cords of my love. Now I will be to them as a man 
who slappeth his cheeks, and I will keep an eye upon hin, © 
and exercise authority over him. Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, — 


ΟΞ. . HOSEA. 


though Assur was his king. Because he refused to return, he 

6 was weakened in his cities by the sword. And it caused him 
to rest with his hands; and they shall eat the fruit of their 
devices. 

t (p) His people are indeed in imminent danger of being 
removed from their dwelling, will God be provoked against 
his honours so as never to exalt him ? 

8 (J) What shall I do with thee, Ephraim ? Shall I shield 
thee, Israel ὃ What must I do with thee ? Shall I make thee 
as Adama and as Seboim? My heart relenteth for him. My 

9 compassion is moved. I will not act according to the fierce- 
ness of mine indignation, I will not give up Ephraim to utter 
destruction. For I am God and am not man—The Holy One 
in the midst of thee. 

10 (p) Am I then not to enter a city? Am I to follow the 
Lord ? Will he roar like a lion? And bécause of his roaring, 
will the children of waters be affrighted ? 

1k (J) They shall be frighted like a bird out of Egypt, and 
like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians. And I will bring 

_ them back to their own homes, saith the Lord. 

12 Ephraim encompassed me with a lie, and the house of 
Israel and Juda, with impieties. Now God had acknowledged 
them, and they were to be called the holy people of God.— 

XII. But this Ephraim is an evil spirit, he pursued a blast- 
ing wind the whole day. He multiplied emptiness and vanity. 
‘Though he made a covenant with the Assyrians, yet oil went 

2 continually to Egypt. With Juda also the Lord hath contro- 

versy. To vindicate Jacob, he will retribute to him, accord- 

ing to his ways, and according to his devices. In the womb 

Jacob kicked his brother, but in his troubles he wrestled 

4 with God. He indeed wrestled with an angel and prevailed. 

Have they wept or have they supplicated me? Have they found 
me in the house of On? Or have they been spoken to there ? 

5 The Lord God Almighty was to be his memorial: To thy 

6 God therefore thou art to return. Keep mercy and judgment 

and draw near to thy God continually. 

7 As for Chanaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance. He lov- 

8 ed totyrannise. [phraim indeed said, “But I am rich, I have 

found a rest for myself.”? Because of the iniquities which he 


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Ch. XIIL HOSEA. 


hath committed, none of his labours shall turn to account, 1 
9 the Lord am thy God. I brought thee up out of the land of 
Egypt, I will yet cause thee to dwell in tents, as in the days 

10 of a festival. Shall I speak to prophets? Though I have mul- 
tiplied visions, and by the ministry of prophets made com- 

11 parisons, was it only because of Galaad? There were liars 
indeed at Galaad—chiefs sacrificing ; but their altars were like 
heaps in an uncultivated field. ὁ. 

12 (p) Though Jacob fled to the plain of Syria, and Israel 
made himself a slave for a wife, and for a wife kept watch, yet 
by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt 
and by a prophet he was preserved. 

13. (J) Ephraim hath kindled indignation and provoked to 
wrath ; his blood therefore shall be poured out on him, and 

XIII. the Lord will retribute to him his reproach. Accord- 
ing to Ephraim’s own account he received rules of rectitude 
by Israel, but he attributed them to Baal and incurred death. 

2 And now they have proceeded on to greater acts of sin; and 
of their silver have made themselves a molten image, accord- 
ing to the image of idols. The handiworks of craftsmen being 
consecrated for them, They say, Sacrifice men, for young 
bulls have failed. For this cause they shall be like a morn- 
ing cloud, and like a transient dew of the morning—like chaff 
blown from a winnowing floor and like a vapour from tears. 

4 As for me, I the Lord thy God am he who established the 

heaven, and created the earth, whose hands have created alt 

the host of heaven; but I did not display these to thee that 
thou shouldst go after them: as 1 have brought thee up 
out of the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt acknow- 
ledge no God besides me. Indeed besides me there is no 

Saviour. It was I who fed thee in the desert—in an unin- 

habited land. When in their pastures they were fed to the 

full; then were their hearts lifted up. For this cause they for- 

7 got me. Therefore I will be to them as a tiger, even asa tigress 

in the way to the Assyrians. I will meet them as a bear be- 

reaved of her cubs, and rend the covering of their heart; and 
the young lions of the forest shall there devour them ; and the 

9 beasts of the field shall tear them to pieces. In thy destruction, 
10 O Israel, who can give succour? Where is this king of thine ? 


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Let him save thee in all thy cities. Let him judge thee, of 
whom thou saidst, ‘Give me a king and a chief.” I gave thee 
a king in mine indignation, and in my wrath restrained the 
whirlwind of Ephraim’s iniquity. As his sin is carefully laid 
up in store, pangs as of a woman in travail shall come upon 


2 him.— 


(p) With regard to that son of thine who is prudent, why 
may not he survive in the destruction of children. 

(J) Him I will deliver from the power of the grave, and 
from death I will redeem them. : 

(p) O death, where is thy punishment? Where thy sting, 
O grave? Is comfort hid from mine eyes? Since he will make 
a distinction among brethren; let the Lord bring upon him a 
blasting wind from the desert, and let it dry up his veins and 
lay waste his fountains; let it parch up his land and all his pre- 
cious stores. 

(J) Samaria shall be utterly destroyed: because she re- 
belled against her God, they shall fall by the sword; and their 
infants shall be dashed to pieces, and their women with child 
shall be ripped up. 


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have been weakened for thine iniquities, take words with you 
and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not re- 
ceive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, 
say to him, “ΝΥ will render to thee the fruit of our lips. As- 
sur cannot save us. We willno more mount horses; we will 
no more say to the works of our hand, “ You are our gods.” 
He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless. 

(J) I will heal their habitations. I will undoubtedly love 
them. Because he hath turned away my wrath from him, 1 
will be to Israel like dew. He shall bloom like a lily, and shoot 
out his roots like Lebanon. His branches shall spread; and he 
shall be like a fruitful olive tree, and like that of Lebanon 
shall be his fragrance. They shall return and dwell under his 
shade; they shall live and be plentifully fed with corn. And. 
he shall flourish like a vine and the memorial of him shall be 
like the wine of Lebanon. As for Ephraim, what hath he any 
more to do with idols? I humbled him and I will strengthen 

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Ch. XIV. HOSEA. 


him. Iam like a fruitful juniper; from me thou shalt find 
fruit. 3 
(p) Who is wise that he may understand these things, 
prudent, that he may know them? Because the ways of the 
Lord are straight; therefore the righteous will walk in them: 
But in them the wicked shall be without strength. 


JOEL. 
A word of the Lord which came to Joel son of Bathucl. 


HEAR these things ye elders! And give ear all ye inha- 
bitants of the land! Have such things happened in your days, 
or in the days of your fathers? Of these things give an ac- 
count to your children; and let your children tell their chil- 
dren; and their children, another. generation. 

The leavings of the palmer worm have been devoured by 
the grasshopper, and the leavings of the grasshopper have 
been devoured by the locust. And the mildew hath consum- 
ed what the locust left. 

Awake ye drunkards, from your wine and weep. Sing a 
mournful song all ye who drink wine to drunkenness. for joy 
and gladness are gone from your mouth. For against my land 
a nation is come up, strong and innumerable. Their teeth are 
the teeth of lions; and their grinders, those of a young lion. 
They have made my vineyard. a desolation; and my fig orch- 
ards, a.waste. They have searched it thoroughly and it is gone 


to wreck; they have made the branches thereof white. 


Let thy song of woe before me be more plaintive than that 
of a bride clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. 
Sacrifice and libationare taken away from the house of the Lord. 
Mourn ye priests, who minister at the Lord’s. altar, because 
the fields are wasted. Let the land mourn : because the corn 
hath suffered: grievously : wine is dried away; oil is diminish- 
ed; husbandmen are parched up. Mourn, ye. farms, for the 
wheat and barley, because the harvester is perished from the 
field. ‘The vines are withered and the fig trees are diminish- 
ed; peach and palm and citron trees and all the trees of the 
field are withered. Because the children of men are ashamed 


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of joy, gird yourselves, ye priests, and lament bitterly : sing 
the song of woe, ye who minister at the altar; go in and sleep 
in sackcloth, ye ministers of God. Because sacrifice and liba- 
tion are withheld from the house of your God. Set apart a fast; 
proclaim a solemn service; assemble the elders—all the inha- 
bitants of the land, to the house of your God, and cry to the 
Lord incessantly, ““ Ah me! Ah me! Ahme! for the day.” 
For the day of the Lord is at hand; and it will come like de- 
struction on destruction. Food is utterly destroyed before your 
eyes—joy and gladness, from the house of your God. The 
heifers startled at their stalls. Stores are exhausted; wine lakes 
are gone to ruin. As the corn is blasted, what shall we sub- 
stitute for ourselves? The herds of cattle uttered mournful 
lowings, because there was no pasture for them; and the flocks 

of sheep are utterly destroyed. To thee, O Lord, let me cry 
for myself, because a fire hath consumed the pleasant places 
of the wilderness, and a flame hath blasted all the trees of the 
field. To thee indeed the cattle in the plain have looked up, 
because the springs of water are quite dry, and a fire hath de- 
voured the pleasant places of the wilderness. 

Blow the trumpet in Sion; make proclamation on my holy 
mountain. And let all the inhabitants of the land be alarmed. 
For the day of the Lord is approaching—for it is near—a day 
of darkness and gloom—a day of clouds and thick darkness, 
Like dawn, there shall be poured out on the mountains a peo: 
ple numerous and powerful, the like of them hath never been, 
nor shall be any more to the years of all generations. Before 
them is a kindling fire, and all behind them a glowing flame. 
Before them the land is like a pleasure garden, and behind 
them, a scene of desolation : and there is none who can escape 
them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and 
like horsemen they can pursue. With a noise like that of 
chariots they will bound over the tops of mountains and their 
noise is like that of a flaming fire consuming stubble. They 
are like a people numerous and powerful, arrayed for battle. 
At their presence peoples will be appalled and every face 
covered with blackness. They can run like warriors and like 
mighty warriors scale walls; and every one will march in his 
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one separate from his comrade. They will march loaded with 
their arms, and though they fall on their weapons they shall 
not be killed. They will surprise the city and run upon the 
walls; they will climb up the houses and enter at windows like 
thieves. At their presence the earth will be confounded and 
the heaven shaken, and the sun and the moon will be darken- — 
ed, and the stars will withdraw their refulgence, and the Lord 
will utter his voice before his army. Because the circuit of his 
camp is very large—because the operation of his words is ir- | 
resistable—because the day of the Lord is great, extremely 
awful; who therefore shall be able to abide it? Now therefore 
saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, 
and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. 
Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord 
your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and 
full of compassion, and relenteth at evils. Who knoweth but 
he will turn and relent, and leave behind him a blessing and a 
sacrifice and a libation for the Lord your God. 

Sound the trumpet in Sion. Appoint a fast; proclaim a 
solemn act of worship. Assemble the people; sanctify the 
congregation ; choose elders. Bring together infants at the 
breast. Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber and 
the bride from her wardrobe. At the foot of the altar, let the 
priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, O 
Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach— ὦ 
for the nations to rule over them. 

That they may not say among the nations, ‘Where is cia 
God?” the Lord was indeed jealous for his land and spared 
his people. And the Lord answered and said to his people, Be- 
hold I will send you corn and wine and oil, and with them you 
shall be plentifully supplied. And I will no more make you a 
reproach among the nations. This army from the north I will — 
remove from you, and drive it to a'land without water, and > 
destroy its front in the first and its rear in the last sea: and 
its smell shall come up and its stench shall ascend, because it 
hath magnified its works. 

(p) Take courage, O land, rejoice and be glad ; for it is 
the Lord who made it great to perform exploits. Take cour- = 
age, O beasts of the field; for the plains of the wilderness are 


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‘in bloom. Because the trees have yielded their fruit—the fig 
23 tree and the vine have put forth their strength; rejoice there- 
fore, ye children of Sion and exult in the Lord your God : for 
he hath given you this food for righteousness, and he will dis- 

24 til upon you the former and the latter rain as heretofore. And 
your threshing floors shall be filled with corn, and your vats 
shall overflow with wine and oil. 

25 (J) I will indeed make you compensation for what hath 
been devoured by the grasshopper and the locust, the palmer 
worm and the mildew—that great army of mine which I sent 

26 against you. And you shall eat plentifully and be satisfied, and 
shall praise the name of the Lord your God, who hath dealt 
wonderfully with you; and my people shall never be put to 

27 shame. And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, 
and that I the Lord am your God and besides me there is no 

28 other; and my people shall never be put to shame. And it shall 
come to pass after these things that I will pour out a portion 
of my spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters 
shall prophesy; and your old men shall dream dreams; and 

29 your young men shall see visions. And on my servants and on 
my hand maids in those days I will pour out a portion of my 

30 spirit. And I will exhibit wonders in heaven and on the earth, 

31 blood and fire and smoky vapour. The sun shall be turned 
into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of 

32 the great and illustrious day of the Lord. But whoever will 
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved; for on mount Si- 
on and in Jerusalem shall be the Saviour, as the Lord hath 
said, and the publishers of glad tidings, whom the Lord hath 
called. | 

TH. — Because, lo! Here Iam in those days and at that time when 

2 Ihave brought back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem; and 
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley 
of Josaphat and plead with them there for my people and my 
heritage, Israel, who have been scattered among the nations. 

3 They indeed divided my land among themselves and cast 
lots for my people; they gave my boys to harlots and 5014 my 

4 girls for wine and drank it. Now what have you, Tyre and Si- 
don and all Galilee of foreign tribes, to do with me? Are you 

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against me? On your heads I will severely and specdily return 
your retribution. Because you have taken my silver and my 
gold, and carried my choicest goods into your temples, and 
sold the sons of Juda and the sons of Jerusalem to the Greeks, 
that you might remove them far from their borders; therefore | 
behold I will raise them up from the places whither you sold | 
them, and return your retribution on your heads. And I will 
deliver your sons and your daughters into the hands of the 
sons of Juda, that they may sell them as captives to a far dis- 
tant nation. 

Because the Lord hath spoken, proclaim these things 
among the nations. Declare war : rouse the warriors : assem- 
ble εὐ march up, all ye men of war. Beat your ploughshares 
into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak 
say, Iam strong. Assemble and come all ye nations around 
and be there gathered together. Let the man of peace become 
a soldier. Let all the nations be roused and come up to the 
valley of Josaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations 
around. Put to the sickles, for the harvest is come; go in and 
tread for the vat is full. Cause the wine lakes to overflow: for 
their wicked deeds have been multiplied. Screams resound in the 
valley of J udgment! Because the day of the Lord in the val. 
ley of Judgment is at hand. The sun and the moon shall be 
obscured in darkness; and the stars shall withdraw their reful- 
gence; and the Lord will utter a shout from Sion, and from 
Jerusalem he will send forth his voice; and the heaven and 
the earth shall be shaken: but the Lord will spare his 
people and strengthen the sons of Israel. And ye shall know 
that I am the Lord your God, who dwell in Sion my holy 
mountain, and J erusalem shall be holy and strangers shall no 
more pass through it. And it shall come to pass in that day, 
that the mountains shall distil new wine ; and the hills shall 
send forth streams of milk; and all the fountains of Juda shall 
pour out water; and a fountain shall issue from the house 
of the Lord, which shall water the valley of bulrushes. Egypt 
shall be a desolation, and Idumea a scene of destruction, for 
the injuries done to the children of Juda—for their having shed 
innocent blood in their land : but Judea shall be inhabited for. 
ever, and Jerusalem for generations of generations: and I will , 


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AMOS. 


The words of Amos which came to him at Akkarim of The- 
koue, which came to him in vision concerning Jerusalem in 
the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jero- 
boam son of Joas, king of Israel, two years before the earth- 
guake. And he said, 


From Sion the Lord hath spoken with majesty, and from 
Jerusalem he uttered his voice, and the pastures of the shep- 
herds mourned, and the top of Carmel withered. And the 
Lord said, 

For the three Aeron of Damascus, and for four 
shall I not be averse from: it ? 

Because with iron saws they sawed asunder the pregnant 
wives of the men of Galaad; therefore I will send a fire into 
the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of Ben- 
Ader. And I will break the bars of Damascus, and _ utterly 
destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and I will cut 
off a tribe from the men of Charran, and the chosen people 
of Syria shall be made captives, saith the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Ga- 
za, and for four, shall I not be averse from them? Because 
they captivated the captives of the Salamonites, to deliver them 
up to Idumea ; therefore I will send a fire against the walls 
of Gaza, and it shall devour the foundations thereof. And I 
will utterly destroy inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall 
be taken away from Ascalon ; and I will lay my hand on Ak- 


‘ karon, and the remnant of the Philistines shall be destroyed 


saith the Lord. , 
Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of 


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they delivered up the captives of the Salamonites to Idumea, 
and did not remember the covenant of brothers; therefore 
I will send a fire against the walls of ‘fyre, and it shall devour 
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Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of 
Idumea, and for four shall I not be averse from it? Because 
they pursued their brother with a sword, and violated a mo- 
ther on the ground: he indeed to evidence his intention seiz- 
ed by force ; he kept up his horror and his onset till he accom- 
plished his purpose ; therefore I will send a fire against Thai- 
man, and it shall consume the foundation of its walls. 

Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of the 
Ammonites, and for four shall I not be averse from them? 
Because they ripped up the pregnant wives of the Galaadites, 
that they might enlarge their-own borders; therefore against the 
walls of Rabbath I will kindle a fire, which shall consume its 
foundations, with a shout in the day of battle ; and it shall 
be shaken in the day of its destruction; and its kings shall 
go into captivity, and their priests, and their chiefs together, 
saith the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of. 
Moab, and for four shall I not be averse from him? Be- 
cause he burned into lime the bones of the king of Idumea ; 
therefore I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the 
foundations of her cities, and Moab shall die of weakness: 
with shouting and with the clangour of trumpets, I will cut 
off her judge, and slay all her chiefs with him, saith the Lord. 

Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of 
the children of Juda, and for four, shall I not be averse from 
him? Because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and 
have not kept his commandments, and have been led astray 
by their vanities which they made, which their fathers had fol- 
lowed; therefore I will send a fire against Juda, and it shall de- 
vour the foundations of Jerusalem. 

Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Israel, 
and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they 
sold a righteous one for silver and a needy one for a pair of 
sandals; and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; 
and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father 
went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the 
name of their God, having bound their garments with cords of 
rushes, they pitched their tents near ise altar, and drank, in 


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removed from before them the Amorite whose stature was hke 
that of a cedar. Though he was strong as an oak, I withered 
10 his fruit above and his roots underneath. I indeed brought 
you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the wil- 
derness forty years, that you might inherit the land of the 
11 Amorites. And I took some of your sons for prophets, and 
some of your young men for a state of sanctification. Are 
not these things so, O children of Israel? Saith the Lord. 
12 But you caused my sanctified ones to drink wine; and charged 
13 the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy:”’ Therefore be- 
hold I will roll under you, asa cart rolleth which is loaded 
14 with sheaves, so that flight shall perish from the swift runner; 
and the strong will not be master of his strength; and the war- 
15 rior shall not save his life. And the bowman shall not stand, 
nor shall the swift of foot escape; even the horseman shall 
16 not save his life. The mighty will not know how to act with 
their forces: the naked shall, in that day, pursue, saith the 
Lord. 
Ill. (p) Hear this word which the Lord hath spoken against 
you, O house of Israel ! 

(J) Yes, against every tribe which I brought out of the 
land of Egypt, saying, Of all the tribes of the earth, I acknow- 
ledge none but you. Therefore I will punish you for all your 
sins. 

(p) Will two walk together continually unless they agree? 

4. Will a lion roar from his forest when he hath no prey? Willa 
young lion utter a continued roar from his den unless he be 

5 tearing something? Will a bird fall on the’ground unless he 
be shot? Will a gin on the ground be loosened, unless some- 

6 thing be caught? Shall a trumpet sound ina city and the peo- 
ple not be alarmed? Can there be in a city a calamity which the 
Lord hath not inflicted? Seeing the Lord will not do‘any thing 
without giving warning to his servants; shall a lion roar and. 
none be struck with dread? Hath the Lord spoken and will 
9 none prophesy? Make proclamation in the provinces of Assy- 
ria, and in the regions of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves 
on the mountains of Samaria, and see many wonderful things 
in the midst thereof, and the cruel oppression which is in it. 


10 Now didshe not know things which will be before her? Saith the 
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Lord. They are treasuring up injustice and misery in their 
countries. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, “ Tyre is all 
around... Thy land shall be wasted.” He will break thy power 
and thy regions shall be ravaged. Thus saith the Lord, “‘As 
when a shepherd snatcheth from the mouth of a lion two legs 
or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be snatched, 
who dwell in Samaria over against that tribe and in Damas- 
cus.” 

Hear ye priests, and testify to the house of Israel, saith the 
ὌΝΩΝ Almighty, That on the day when I punish Israel for his 
impieties, I will execute vengeance also on the altars of Bethel; 
and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground. 
I will confound and smite the turretted house over the sum- 
mer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish; and many 
other houses shall perish with them, saith the Lord. 

Hear this word, ye heifers of Basanitis, ye who are on the 
mountain of Samaria; who tyrannise over the distressed and 
trample the needy, who say to your masters, Bring and let us 
drink. The Lord sweareth by his Holies, that lo! days are com- 
ing upon you when fiery pestilent men will seize you with 
arms; and throw them with you into boiling kettles: and 
you shall be dragged out naked over against one another, and 
cast out naked on the mountain Romman, saith the Lord. You , 
have gone to Baithel and committed transgression, to Galgala 
and multiplied transgressions, and have offered your sacrifices 
every morning, and your tythes every three days; for having 
publicly read a law they proclaimed thanksgivings. Proclaim 
them, because in such things the children of Israel delight, 
saith the Lord. But as for me, I will give you gnashing of 
teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places. 

When you returned not tome, saith the Lord, I withheld 
from you the rain three months before harvest; with an intent 
to rain on one city and on another city not to rain. One part 
was to be watered, and the part on which Ε did not rain, to be 
dried up; so that two or three cities should crowd to one city 
for drink. and not be satisfied. 

And when you turned not to me, saith the Lord, I smote 
you with blasting and mildew: you multiplied your gardens; 


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the caterpillar devoured your vineyards and. your fig trees and 
your olive orchards. 

10 When even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, 
I sent death among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your 
young men with the sword and gave up your horses to capture: 

11 and by your rage I involved your camps in fire. And when 
even for this you turned not to me, saith the Lord, I overthrew 
you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became 
like a brand plucked out of fire. : 

1. Nowas even for this you have not turned to me, saith the 

Lord, therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. 

But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, O Israel, to in- 

voke thy God: for behold here am I, who give strength to 

thunder—Who create wind, and proclaim for men his anomt- 
~ ed one—who make the morning dawn and thick darkness, and 
who walk on the high places of the earth, whose name is the 

Lord God, Omnipotent. . 

V. (p) Hear this word of the Lord—a song of woe which I 
2 take up respecting you. The house of Israel is fallen. Shall it 
never more rise again? The virgin of Israel is prostrate on the 
ground. Is there none to raise her up? For this cause thus saith 
the Lord, Lord, of the city from which a thousand marched, 

there shall be left a hundred; and of the city, from which a 

hundred marched, ten shall be left to the house of Israel. 

4. Wherefore, thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek 

me and you shall live. But seek not Baithel, nor go to Galgal, 

5 nor pass on to the Well of Oath: because Galgal shall surely 

go into captivity, and Baithel shall be as if it had never existed. 

Seek the Lord and live, that the house of Joseph may not blaze 

like a fire, and devour him: and the house of Israel have none 

to quench it. He is the exalter of judgment and hath establish- 

ed righteousness for the earth. He is the maker and the form- 

er of all things. He turneth darkness into day, and darkeneth 

the day into night. He calleth to him the water of the sea, and 

9 poureth it out on the face of the earth. His name is the Lord. 

He setteth destruction against strength and bringeth misery 
on bulwarks. 

10 (J) They hated a reprover in the gates and held in abhor- 

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poor with their fists, though you had received from them choice 
gifts; you have built houses of hewn stone; but in them you 
shall not dwell; you have planted lovely vineyards, but you 
shall not drink the wine thereof. 

(p) Because I know your manifold impieties and your» 
sins are mighty—you trample down the righteous, take pledg- 
es and turn aside the poor in the gates; therefore the prudent — 
will at that time be silent because it is the time of wicked men. 
Seek good and not evil that you may live, and so the Lord 
God Almighty will be with you. As you have said, We have 
hated evil and loved good; therefore re-establish judgment in 
the gates, that the Lord God Almighty may have compassion 
on the remnant of Joseph. For this purpose, saith the Lord, the 
God Almighty, in all the streets let there be wailing, and in 
all the highways let them say, Alas! Alas! Let the husbandman 
be called-to lamentation and mourning, and to them who are 
skilled in the song of woe. And in all the ways let there be 
wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, said the 
Lord. Alas for them who desire the day of the Lord! Why 
should you desire the day of the Lord, when it is darkness and 
not light? As if a man would flee from the face of a lion and 
a bear met him, or, as if one would leap into a house and lean- 
ing his hand on the wall a serpent bit him. Is not this day of 
the Lord darkness and not light—even thick darkness, in 
which there is not a ray of light? 

(J) Ihave hated, I have rejected your festivals, and I will 
not smell your sacrifices at your solemn assemblies. Therefore 
though you offer me whole burnt offerings, I will not accept 
your sacrifices nor regard your sumptuous peace offerings. 
Take from me the noise of thy songs, and let me not hear the 
melody of musical instruments; but let judgment roll down 
like water, and righteousness like an impassable torrent. Did 
you, O house of Israel, offer to me burnt offerings and sacrifi- 
ces, forty years in the wilderness? You have indeed taken up 
the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Raiphan—those 
types of them which you have made for yourselves. Therefore 
I will remove you beyond Damascus; saith the Lord, the God 
whose name is the Almighty. . 

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in the mount of Samaria. They have gathered as a vintage 
the governments of nations and gone in. O house of Israel, 
Go ye all over [to Chalane] and see, and thence pass on to 
Ematraba and thence go down to Gath of the Philistines, to 
the strongest of all those kingdoms of theirs. Are their bor- 
ders larger than yours, who are coming to an evil day, who are 
drawing near and on the point of touching false sabbaths? 
Some of you are sleeping on beds of ivory and lolling at ease 
on their couches, and eating kids from the flocks, and from 
the herds calves fed with milk: some are dwelling on the 
sound of musical instruments; as if they thought it fixed and 
not fleeting. Some are drinking filtered wine and anointing 
themselves with most precious ointment and have no feeling 
for the affliction of Joseph. Now for this cause, from being a 
a government of mighties they shall be captives, and the 
neighing of horses shall be taken away from Ephraim. For 
the Lord hath sworn by himself, As I abhor all this haughti- 
ness of Jacob and have hated all his regions, therefore I will 
destroy cities with all their inhabitants. And it shall come to 
pass that if ten head men be left in one family, they shall die 
and the residue shall be left and their domestics shall succeed 
them. And when they are pressed to bring their bones out of 
the house, one will say to them who are over the family, Are 
there any more yet with thee? And when one will say, There 
is no more : then will one say, Forbear to mention the name 
of the Lord on this account; for behold the Lord command- 
eth, and he will smite the great house with breaches and the 
small house with fractures. Can horses pursue among rocks? 
Will they refrain from whinnying at females ? Because you 
have turned judgment into fury, and the fruit of righteousness 
into bitterness, some rejoicing in a thing of naught, and others 
saying, ‘Have we not by ourownstrength taken horns?” There- 
fore, behold I will raise up against you, O house of Israel, a 
nation, saith the Lord of hosts, who shall afflict you that you 
may not enter the bay of Aimath, nor approach the brook at 
the settings of the sun. 


ἐν}; (p) So the Lord God pointed out to me, and lo! an 


eastern swarm of locusts was coming and behold a brouchus 
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ly devoured the grass of the land, I said, O Lord, Lord, be ὁ 
appeased. Who shall raise up Jacob? Because he is very 
small, relent, O Lord at this. 

This therefore shall not be, saith the Lord. 

So the Lord pointed out to me, and lo! the Lord had 
called for the punishment by fire and it was devouring the 
great abyss and consuming the portion of the Lord, where- 
upon I said, Cease, O Lord, I beseech thee. Who shall raise © 
up Jacob? Because he is very small, relent, O Lord, at this. 
This then shall not be, saith the Lord. 

So the Lord pointed out to me; and lo ! he was standing on 
a wall of adamant and in his hand was an adamant. And the 
Lord said to me, What dost thou see, Amos? And when I 
said, An Adamant; the Lord said to me, Behold I interpose an 
adamant in the midst of my people Israel that 1 may no more 


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utterly destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid 
waste and I willrise up against the house of Jeroboam with 
a sword. 

Then Amasias the priest of Baithel sent to Jeroboam king 
of Israel, saying, Amos is raising insurrections against thee 
in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all 
his words. For thus Amos saith, ‘‘ Jeroboam shall die by the 
sword; and Israel shall be carried away captive from his land.” 
Moreover Amasias said to Amos, Begone, seer. Get thee to 
the land of Juda and dwell there; and prophesy there : but 
against Baithel thou shalt not continue to prophesy; for it is 
the sanctuary of the king. It is the king’s house. Whereupon 
Amos answered and said to Amasias, Fie not a prophet, nor 
a son of a prophet. I was only a herdsman and a gatherer of 
dates; and the Lord took me from the flocks and the Lord said 
tome, Go and prophesy against my people Israel. Now there- 
fore hear a word of the Lord, Thou sayst, ‘‘ Prophesy not 
against Israel,”? and ‘‘ Thou shalt not give any disturbance to 
Israel.’? Therefore thus saith the Lord, 

“Thy wife shall be a prostitute in the city ; and thy sons 
and thy daughters shall fall by the sword ; and thy land shall 
be measured out with a line; and-thou shalt die in a polluted 
land; and Israel shall be carried captive from his land.” 


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VIII. So the Lord, Lord pointed out to me, and lo! a fowler’s 
2 basket. And he said, Amos, what dost thou see? And when l 
said, A fowler’s basket, the Lord said to me, The end is come 
upon my people Israel. I will no more permit them to trans- 
3 gress. In that day indeed the vaulted cielings of this temple 
shall resound with cries of woe, saith the Lord, Lord. Multi- 
tudes are fallen every where, I will bring on silence. 
4 (p) Hear this, 1 beseech you, ye who every morning op- 
press the needy, and by your tyranny drive the poor from the 
5 land, saying, When will the new moon be over that we may 
buy? And the sabbaths, that we may open store? to make 
the measure small, and the weight heavy, and to make the 
balance uneven, that we may purchase the poor for silver, 
and the needy for a pair of sandals, when from every kind of 
7 product we shall have made gain. The Lord sweareth, in op- 
position to this arrogance of Jacob, that none of these works 
of yours shall ever be forgotten. Now for these things shall 
not the land be troubled and every inhabitant therein mourn? 
Destruction indeed shall swell like a river, and flow down like 
the river of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, 
saith the Lord, Lord, That the sun shall set at noon day, and 
10 the light on that day shall be darkened on the earth. And 
I Will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs 
into songs of lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth on every 
loin and baldness on every head, and cause a mourning for 
him like that fora beloved, and for them with him, like that 
of a day of sorrow. 
11 Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will send 
a famine against the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst 
12 for water; but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. And 
they shall fluctuate as water from sca to sea, and run to and 
fro; from north to east seeking the word of the Lord, and shall 
13 not find it. In that day the fair virgins and young men shall 
faint for thirst. They who swear by the atonement of Samaria, 
and they who say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth : thy God, O Ber- 
sabee, liveth, shall indeed fall and shall never rise any more. 
IX. [ἅν τὰς Lord standing on the altar, and he said, Smite 
the propitiatory and let the porches be shaken, and cut them 
down on the heads of them all; and those of them who are left 


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Twill slay with the sword. Such of them as flee shall not get 
away; and such of them as escape shall not be saved. Though 
they hide themselves in the mansion of the dead, thence my 
hand will drag them up. And though they climb up to heaven, 
thence I wil! bring them down. Though they hide themselves 
on the top of Carmel, I will there search them out and take 
them. And should they go down from my sight into the depths 
of the sea, I will there give orders to the dragon and he will 


4 bite them. And if they go into captivity before their enemies, 


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I will there command the sword and it shall slay them. I will 
indeed keep mine eyes fixed on them for evils and not for 
good—even I who am the Lord, the’ Lord God Almighty who 
toucheth the earth and shaketh it, and all its inhabitants shall 
mourn, and its destruction shall swell like a river, and flow 
down like the river of Egypt; who buildeth his stairs up to 
heaven, and his tribunal on the foundations of the earth; who 
calleth to him the water: of the sea and poureth it out on the 
face of the earth, the Lord Almighty is his name. 

Are not you, O Israelites, the same to me as the Ethiopians, 
saith the Lord. Did Inotbring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, 
and the Philistines out of Cappadocia and the Syrians from Both- 
ras? Behold the eyes of the Lord God are against every kingdom 
of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth. But 


because I will not utterly destroy the house of Israel, saith the 


Lord, therefore I order, and I will scatter the house of Israel 
among all the nations, as if they were winnowed with a fan; 
and not a morsel of it shall fall on this land. By the sword all 
the sinners of my people shall die, who say, These evils shall 


not come near nor fall upon.us. | 
Inthatday I will raise up the tabernacle of David which hath 


fallen; I will rebuild those parts of it which have fallen to de- | 
cay, and repair what have been demolished. I will indeed re- 
build it as in the days of old, that the rest of mankind may 
seek [the Lord] even all the nations who are called by my 
name, saith the Lord who doth all these things. 

Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When the 
harvester shall overtake the grape gatherer; and the grape shall 
begin to ripen at seeding time; and the mountains shall distil 
sweet wine; and all the hills shall be planted. And I will bring 


Ch. IX. AMOS. 


back the captivity of my people Israel; and they shall rebuild 
the wasted cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vine- 
yards and drink the wine thereof; and make gardens and eat 

15. the fruits of them. I will indeed plant them in their own land; 
and they shall no more be rooted up from the land, which I 
have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty. 


OBADIAH. 
The vision of Obadiah. 


Thus saith the Lord God to Idumea, (I heard the report 

from the Lord. When he sent a message to the nations. Arise 

2 and let us go up against it to battle.) Behold I have made 

thee very small among the nations: thou art dishonoured in 

3 a high degree. The pride of thy heart puffed thee up, dwell- 

ing in the clefts of rocks. (Having made his habitation high 

he said in his heart, Who can bring me down to the ground?) 

4 Though thou shouldst soar aloft like an eagle, and make thy 

nest among the stars ; thence I will pull thee down, saith the 

5 Lerd. If thieves come to thee, or robbers by night; in what 

place soever thou mayst be cast; would they not steal what 

would satisfy them? And if grape gatherers came to. thee, 

6 would they leave no gleaning? How Esau hath been search- 

7 ed! are even his hidden stores left? They have driven thee 

to the borders, All the men in league with thee, have risen up 

against thee. Thy men of peace prevailed against thee. They 
laid snares under thee. They have no understanding. 

8 In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy wise men out of 

9 Idumea, and understanding out of the mount of Esau. And thy 

warriors from Thaiman shall be dismayed, that man may be 

10 removed from the mountain of Esau. On account of the impi- 

ous slaughter of thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, 

11 and thou shalt be cut off forever. From the day that thou 

didst become an adversary, whenever the Philistines captivat- 

ed his army, or strangers entered his gates and cast lots on Je- 

12 rusalem, thou also wast as one of them. But thou shouldst 

not have looked on thy brother’s day in the day of strangers ; 

nor rejoiced over the children of Juda, in the day of their de- 

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struction ; nor shouldst thou have vaunted in'the day οὗ afflic- 


tion; nor entered people’s gates in the day of their distresses. 
Thou especially shouldst not have beheld their congregation 
in the day of their destruction, nor joined to fall on their army 
in the day of their defeat; nor beset the passes to cut off such. 
of them as were escaping; nor shouldst thou have hemmed 
in his fugitives, in a calamitous day. Because the day of the 
‘Lord, against all the nations is near; as thou hast done so shall, | 


-it be done to thee: thy dealings shall be returned on thy head. 


For in the same manner as thou hast drunk on my holy moun-, 
tain, all the nations shall be drunk up as wine. They shall be 
drunk up and swallowed down, and be as if they had never 
been. But on mount Sion shall be safety and a sanctuary; and 
the house of Jacob shall possess those who possessed them; and 
the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph, a 
flame ; and the house of Esau shall be as stubble; and upon 
these they shall kindle and consume them, so that there shall 
not be a torch bearer to the house of Esau. For the Lord 
hath spoken. And they in Nageb shall inherit the mountain 
of Esau ; and those in Sephale shall inherit the Philistines. — 
and. they shall possess mount Ephraim and the plain of Sama- 
ria and Benjamin and Galaaditis ; and this shall be the domi- 
nion.of the captivity—to the Israelites shall belong the land 


_ of. the Chananites to Sarepta, and to the captives of Jerusa- 


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lem, to Ephratha: they shall possess the cities of Nageb.—- 
And they who have been preserved, shall go up from mount 
Sion to execute vengeance on the mountain of Esau. And 
the kingdom»shall .be the Lord’s. 


JONAS. 


When a word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of 
Amathi, saying, ‘“ Arise and go to Ninive that great city 
and proclaim in it, That the cry of its wickedness is come up 
to me.” Jonas arose to flee to Tharsis from the presence of 
the Lord, and: went down to Joppa, and finding a ship bound 
to Tharsis, he paid his fare and went on board with a design 
to sail with them to Tharsis, from the presence of the Lord. 
But the Lord raised a wind on the sea, and there was a great 


Ch. I. JONAS. 


tempest in the sea, so that the ship was in danger of founder. 

5 ing. And the mariners were terrified, and. cried every one to ᾿ 

his god, and threw overboard some of the cargo, to lighten’ 
the ‘vessel. Now Jonas had gone down into the ship’s hold, 

6 and was asleep and snoring. And the.master of the ship came — 

to him and said to him, What! art thou snoring ? Arise and 

call on thy God, that thy God may save us, and that we may 

7 not perish. Then they said, one to another, Come let us cast 

lots and know on whose account this calamity. is come on 

8 us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas. Where- 

“upon they said to him, Tell us. What is thy business? And 

whence comest thou? And of what country, and of what 

9 people art thou? And he said to them, I am a servant of the 

Lord; and 1 worship the Lord God of heaven, who made 

10 the sea and the dry land. Upon this the men were greatly ter- 

rified and said to him, Why hast thou done this ? (For the 

men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, 

11 for he had told them.) Then they said to him, What shall we 

do to thee that the sea may be calmed for us? For the sea 

12 rolled and. grew more and more tempestuous. And Jonas 

said to them, Take me up and throw me into the sea, and the 

sea will be calm for you; for I know that on my account this 

13 great tempest is come upon you. When the men had labour- 

ed hard to reach land, but could not because the sea ran 

high, and grew more tempestuous against them, then they 

14 cried tothe Lord and said, Forbid it, O Lord, that we perish, 

for the life of this man, and bring not upon us imnocent blood; 

for thou, O Lord, hast done according to thy pleasure. 

15 Then they took Jonas and cast him into the sea. Whereupon 

16 from raging the sea became still. And the men feared the 

Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made | 
VOWS. | 

17 Now the Lord had commanded a great fish to swallow 

Jonas, so Jonas was three days and three nights, in the belly 

Il. of the fish. And when out of the belly of the great fish, 

Jonas prayed to the Lord his God, and said, In my affliction 

I cried to the Lord my God, and he hearkened to me: thou 

didst hear my cry from the womb of Hades: thou didst 

3 hearken to my prayer: thou hast cast me into the depths of 


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Ch. Ill. JONAS. 


the heart of the sea. When streams encompassed me—all 
4 thy billows and thy waves passed over me. ‘Then I said, I am 
cast out from thy sight; nevertheless I will continue to look 
5 towards thy holy temple. The water was poured around me 
to my soul; and the lowest abyss encompassed me; my head 
6 hath gone down into the clefts of mountains; I have gone down 
to a land, the bars of which are everlastingly fixed: let my 
7 soul now, corrupted as it is, ascend, O Lord, my God. When 
my soul was fainting I remembered the Lord ; let my prayer 
8 now come to thee into thy holy temple. They who worship 
9 vanities and lies have forsaken their mercy: But I will sacri- 
fice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving. I will 
pay thee what I have vowed to the Lord for my deliverance. 

10 _ Upon this a command was given by the Lord to the fish, 
and it cast forth Jonas upon the dry ground. 

III. Then a word of the Lord came to Jonas a second time 
saying, ‘“‘Arise and go to Ninive that great city, and proclaim 
in it according to the former proclamation which I spoke to 

3 thee.”? So Jonas arose and went to Ninive as the Lord had 
spoken. Now Ninive was an exceeding great city, of about 

4 three days’ journey. And Jonas began at his entering the city, 
and for about one day’s journey cried with a loud voice and 

5 said, ‘Yet three days and Ninive shall be destroyed.” And the 
men of Ninive believed God and. proclaimed a fast, and put 

6 on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. When the word 
reached the king of Ninive, he arose from his throne and 
stripped off his robes and clothed himself with sackcloth and 

7 sat in ashes. And proclamation was made and orders issued 
in Ninive from the king and from his nobles, saying, With 
regard to men and beasts, including herds and flocks, Let 
them not taste any thing; let them neither feed nor drink 
water. So both men and beasts were covered with sackcloth; 
and there was an incessant cry to God; and every one turned 
from his evil way, and from the wickedness of their hands, 
saying, Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away 

10 from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish. And God 
saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways. And 
God relented at the evil which he said he would do to them, . 
and did it not. 


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IV... «Thereupon Jonas was exceedingly grieved and confound- 
ed, and he prayed to the Lord and said, O Lord were not these 
2 my words, when I was yet inmy own country? For which cause 
attempted to flee to Tharsis. For I knew that thou art com- 
passionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in kind- 
3 ness and relentest at evils. Now, therefore, Ὁ Sovereign Lord, 
take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. 
4 And the Lord said to Jonas, Art thou very sorry-—(Now Jonas 
5 had gone out of the city and sat over against it, and had made 
for himself a booth and sat under it until he should see what 
6 would befal the city. And the Lord had given orders to a co- 
locynthis, and it had sprung up over the head of Jonas to be a 
shade over his head to shade him on account of his sufferings; 
7 and Jonas was exceeding glad of the colocynthis. But early — 
the next morning God gave orders to a worm and it smote the 
8 colocynthis and it withered. And when the sun rose God or- 
dered a burning wind to spring up and the sun beat upon Jo- 
nas’ head so that he became fainty and abandoned himself to 
9 despair and said, It is better for me to die than to live. And 
10 God said to Jonas, Art thou very sorry) forthe colocynthis. And 
he said I am sorry even to death. Thereupon the Lord said, 
Thou hast compassion for the colocynthis, for which thou hast 
‘not toiled and which thou hast not nourished, which sprang 
11 up ina night and perished in a night. And shall not I have 
compassion on Ninive this great city, in which there are more 
than one hundred and twenty thousand of the human species, 
_who know not their right hand and their left; and also much 
cattle. 


MICAH. 


i. Π (p) A word of the Lord came to Micah the Morasthite in 
the days of Joatham and Achaz and Ezekias kings of Juda; 
with regard to those things which he saw touching Samaria 

2 and touching Jerusalem, Hear, O peoples, words! and let this 
land attend and all who are in it. And let the Lord, Lord 
3 among you be a witness—the Lord from his holy temple. For 
behold the Lord is coming forth from his place; and he will 
4 come down and walk on the heights of this land; and under 


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him the mountains will tremble, and the vallies shall melt like 
wax before fire, and be like water rolling down a precipice. - 
(J) All this is on account of the impiety of Jacob, and 
for the sin of the house of Israel. What is the impiety of Ja- 
cob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the sin of the house of Ju- 
da? Is it not Jerusalem? Therefore I will make Samaria like a 
hut of a field and like a plant of a vineyard, and I will drag the 


stones thereof into a ditch and lay her foundations bare. And 


all her graven images shall be hack’d to pieces; and all her earn- 


ings shall be burned with fire; and all her idols I will utterly 


deatray: 
Because from the earnitigs of fornication she collected, and 
from the earnings of fornication, amassed; therefore she shall 


wail and utter lamentations: she shall walk barefoot and naked; Ὁ 


she shall utter a wailing like that of jackals; and moanings like 
the daughters of the ostrich. 

Because her wound is large; because it hath come-even to 
Juda and reached the gate of my people, evento Jerusalem; mag- 
nify not yourselves ye men of Gath, and ye Enakims, rebuild 
not from a house, in derision. According to your derision you 
shall sprinkle yourselves with dust. Sennaar, who dwelt at 
ease in her cities, went not forth to bewail a neighbouring 
house; from you she shall receive a painful wound. 

‘Who led the way to good for her who was dwelling in sor- 
rows, because evils from the Lord, a sound of chariots and 
horsemen came down against the gates of Jerusalem? Was it 
the inhabitant of Lachis? She isa leader to sin for the daugh- 


ter of Sion. Because in thee have been found the impieties οἵ 


Israel, therefore even to the inheritance of Gath he will give 
up idolatrous houses as abandoned. ‘To the kings of Israel 
they were of no avail. O inhabitant of Lachis! until the true 
heirs shall be brought in—O! Odollam! until an inheritance, 


the glory of the daughter of Israel shall come, shave thy locks ᾿ 


and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; lengthen out 


thy widowhood like an eagle, for they shall be carried from 


thee into captivity. © gy - 
They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, 


Ht soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not, 


lift up their hands to God. They coveted fields and plundered 


orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and 


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Ch. Il. MICAH. 


3 his household—a man and his inheritance; therefore thus saith 
the Lord, Behold against this tribe I am planning evils, from 
which you shall not withdraw your necks, nor walk erect sud- 

4 denly. Because it is an evil time, a parable will in that day be 
taken up against you, and a song of lamentation will be sung, 
saying, “With affliction we have been afilicted! the portion of 
my people hath been measured with a line, and there was none 

5 to hinder or turn it aside.” Your fields have been parcelled out, 
therefore there shall be none to stretch a line for thee by lot, 

6 in the congregation of the Lord. Weep not bitterly, nor let 
tears be shed for these things, for reproaches will not be cast off 

7 even by him who saith, “The house of Israel hath provoked 
to wrath the spirit of the Lord. Are not these his purposes? 
Are not his words good with him? Have these walked in a 

_ 8 straight course?”’ Indeed this people of mine have openly riser: 
-up for enmity. In direct oppositicn to his peace they have even 
stripped off his skin, that the extreme horror of war might de- 
stroy hope. ΤῊΝ. 

9 The leaders of my people shall be hurled from their houses 
of pleasure; for their wicked. devices they have been expelled; 


"40 draw ye near to the everlasting mountains. Arise and depart, 


for this is not a rest for thee. By reason of impurity you are 
11 utterly corrupted: you have been put to flight when there was 
no pursuer: a spirit hath set up a lie: it hath dropped. on thee: 


10. for wine and plenty. Yet it shall come to pass that from a drop 


of this people, Jacob with all his sons shall be gathered toge- 
ther. With expectation I will expect the remnant of Israel. 1 
will place together them who are about to return. Like sheep 
in distress, like a flock in their fold, they shall rush out from 

13. among men through a breach before them. They have broken 
through and passed the gate; they are gone through it and 
their king is gone out before them; and the Lord will be their 
leader, and he will say, 


A 
TI. _Hear these things ye children of the house of Jacob, and 


ye remnant of the house of Israel, is it not your business to 
2 know judgment? As for them who hate good and seek evil, 
who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: 
3 vas they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed 
off their skin from them: and have broken their bones and 


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chopped them up, as flesh for ἃ kettle and as piéces of meat for 
a pot: so they shall cry to the Lord but he will not hearken to 
them; but will turn away his face from them at that time, be- 
cause by their:devices they have committed evil against these. 


II. ‘THUS saith the Lord against the prophets who led 
my people astray, who gnash with their teeth and proclaim 
peace for them, though it was not put in their mouths; they 
have raised up war against them. Therefore from vision you 
shall have night; and from prophesying you shall have dark- 
ness. And the sun shall set upon the prophets, and upon them 
the day shall darken: and the seers of dreams shall be put to 
shame; and the diviners shall be laughed to scorn, and reviled 
by all; for none will hearken to them. None but I can, by the 
spirit of the Lord, supply strength both of judgment and 
might to declare to Jacob his impiety and to Israel his sins. 

(0) Hear these things I beseech you, ye leaders of the 
house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, who ab- 
hor judgment and pervert all equity, who are building up 5i- 
on with blood and Jerusalem with injustice. 

(J) Her rulers have judged for rewards; and her priests 
have given answers for hire; and her prophets have prophesied 
for silver, without waiting for the Lord, saying, ‘‘Is not the 
Lord among us? No evils shall come upon us:”? therefore be- 
cause of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusa- 
lem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and 
the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest. 

. But it shall come to pass in the last of these days, that the 
mountain of the Lord shall be conspicuous; it shall be establish- 
ed on the tops of the mountains, and raised high aboye the 
hills; and peoples shall hasten to it. And many nations shall — 
come—they will say, ‘““Come, let us go up to the mountain of 
the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; that they may 
point out to us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths.”’ 
For out of Sion shall go fortha law; and the word of the Lord 
from Jerusalem. And he will judge among many peoples, and 
rebuke nations of extensive power. And they shall beat their 
swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. 
Nation shall no more lift up a sword against neon nor shall 


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der his own vine, and every man under his own fig tree ; and 
there shall be none to make them afraid. 

(p) Because the mouth of the Lord Almighty hath spoken 
these things—because all the people will walk every one in 
his own way, let us therefore walk in the name of the Lord 
our God until that age and beyond it. 

(J) In that day, saith the Lord, I will gather her that hath 
been bruised; and take back her who was cast off and them 
whom I had put away: and I will make the bruised a rem- 
nant, and her who was put away, a mighty nation. And the 
Lord will reign over them on mount Sion henceforth and for- 
ever. And as for thee, thou squalid tower of a flock, thou 
daughter of Sion; to thee he will come, when the chiefdom, 
the first royal government shall have come from Babylon for 
the daughter of Jerusalem. Now therefore why hast thou 
known evils? Was there no king for thee? Or was thy coun- 
sel destroyed, that pangs of a woman in travail have seized 
thee? Be in pangs, but take courage and draw near to delivery, 
O daughter of Sion. For thou art now to go from a city and. 
to make thy abode ina field, and go even to Babylon. Thence 
he will deliver thee; yes, thence the Lord thy God will redeem 
thee out of the hands of thine enemies. Now indeed many na- 
tions are assembled against thee, saying, ‘‘ Let us rejoice ex- 
ceedingly and let our eyes look upon Sion.” But they did not 
know the determination of the Lord nor understand his coun- 
sel. Because he hath gathered them as sheaves for a threshing 
floor, arise daughter of Sion and tread them out. Because I 
will make thy horns iron and thy hoofs I will make brass; 
therefore thou shalt break many peoples in pieces, and devote 
the multitude of them to the Lord, and their substance to the 
Lord of the whole earth. 

_(p) Now shall a daughter be hedged in with a hedge. He 
hath ordered a siege against us. 

(J) With a rod they will smite on the check the tribes of 
Israel. But as for thee, Bethlehem, thou house of Ephratha, 
art thou too little to be one of the chiliads of Juda? Out of thee 
one shall come forth for me to be the chief of Israel. His go- 
ings forth have been from the beginning—from the days of 

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an age. Therefore he will continue them till the time of one 
bringing forth. She shall bring forth and the rest of their bre- 
thren shall turn to the children of Israel. And they will stand 
and look and the Lord will feed his flock with majesty; and in, 


athe glory of the name of the Lord their God they shall subsist; 


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because they shall now be magnified to the ends of the earth; 
therefore she shall have peace. 

As for Assur, when he hath come against your land, and when he 
hath passed over your country; against him shall be raised up 
sevenshepherds. And there shall be eight bites of men and they 
will feed Assur withasword and the land of Nebrod in its enclo- 
sure. So he will deliver from the Assyrian, when he hath come 
against your land and when he hath passed over your borders. 
Andtheremnant of Jacob shall be among the nations in the midst 
of many people, like dew falling from the Lord and like lambs 
upon the wilds. 

That none may be ungathered or left behind among 
the children of men, the remnant of Jacob shall be among 
the nations in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among 
beasts of the forest, and like a young lion among flocks 
of sheep; so that when he passeth through and hath made a 
choice, he may tear and there shall be none to deliver. Thy 
hand shall be raised up against them who afflict thee; and all 
thine enemies shall be utterly cut off. And it shall come to pass 
in that day, saith the Lord, that I will destroy the horses from 
the midst of thee and destroy thy chariots and I will root out 
2 the cities of thy land and demolish thy fortifications. And I 
will cut off thy sorceries out of thy hands and in thee shall be 
no diviners. And I will cut off thy-graven images and thy pil- 
lars from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship 
the works of thy hands. And I will cut down the groves from 
amidst thee and utterly destroy thy cities; and with indigna- 
tion and with wrath I will execute vengeance among the na- 
tions because they have not hearkened. 


11. (p) HEAR, I beseech you, a word, The Lord, Lord, 
hath commanded. 

(J) Arise; come to judgment before the mountains; and 
let the hills hear thy voice! | 
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ye vallies the foundations of the earth! For the Lord hath a 
controversy with his people, and with Israel he will plead. O 
my people, what have I done to thee? Or wherein have I 


. grieved thee? Or what molestation have I given thee? Answer 


me. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and re- 
deemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee 
Moses and Aaron and Mariam. O my people call now to re- 
membrance what counsel Balak king of Moab took against 
thee; and what answer was made him by Balaam son of Beor, 
That from Schoinon the righteousness of the Lord may he 
made known to. Galgal. 

(Balak.) ‘* By seit mean shall I gain over the Lord? Shall 
I take him for my God most high? Shall I gain him over by 


whole burnt offerings—by calves of a year old? Will the Lord 


accept me for thousands of rams or myriads of fat goats? Must 
I give my first born for iniquity—the fruit of my body for the 
sin of my soul.” 

(Balaam.) “ Must thou, O man, be told what is good? 
What doth the Lord require from thee, buttodo justice and to 
lovemercy, andto be prepared to walk with the Lord thy God?” ' 

(p) Let the voice of the Lord be proclaimed in the city 
and it will save them who fear his name.. 

(J) Hear, O'tribe ! Who is the man that will adorn a city? 
Will fire and the house of an unrighteous man [do it?] Or he | 
who is treasuring up unlawful treasures and iniquities with 
haughtiness? Will an unrighteous man be justified by a ba- 
lance, or false weights by a bag with which they have increas- | 
ed their wicked wealth? As they who inhabit it have spoken 
lies and their tongue hath been exalted in their mouth; there- 
fore I will begin with smiting thee—I will make thee desolate 
for thy sins. Thou shalt eat but shalt not be satisfied. Though 
darkness come and warn thee thou shalt not escape ; and if 
any escape, to the sword they shall be delivered up. Thou 
shalt sow but thou shalt not reap. Thou shalt press the olive, 
but shalt not anoint thyself with oil. You shall make wine, but 
shall not drink ‘it. And the ritual services of my people shall 
be utterly destroyed. As thou hast kept the statutes of Zam- 
bri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have — 
walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desola-_ 


Ch. VIL MICAH. 


tion, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you 
shall bear the reproaches of peoples. 


VII. _  (p) Woe is me! for I am like one sekintiet up stalks in 


harvest, and like one gathering a gleaning at the vintage? Not 


2 a bunch of the first fruits is left for me to eat. Ah woe is my 


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life, that the pious is perished from the land, and among men 
there is not an upright man left! 

(J) They are all indicted for capital crimes: they griev- 
ously afflict every man his neighbour: they are preparing their 
hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken 
words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion; therefore I will 
take away their good things, like a consuming moth μθύθονς 
ing regularly in the day of visitation. 

(p) Alas! alas! thy punishments are come; now will their 
lamentations be—‘‘ Trust not in friends, nor confide in rulers, 
against the wife of thy bosom be on thy guard—to trust no- 
thing to her: fora son dishonoureth a father; a daughter will 
rise up against her mother; a daughter in law against her mo- 
ther in law; all a man’s household are his enemies.” 

(c) But as for me I willlook to the Lord; I will wait for 
the God who is my saviour; he who is my God will hearken 
to me. Rejoice not over me, O mine enemy, because I 
have fallen. I shall rise again, for though I sit in darkness the 
Lord will give me light. I will bear ‘tba indignation of the 
Lord, because I have sinned against him; ἀπε he vindicate 
my cause. He will do me justice and bring me out into light; 
and shame shall cover her who saith, ‘ κω ἢ is thy God?” 
Mine eyes shall see her. She shall now be trodden down like 
dirt in the streets. 

(J) The day for anointing a pliath tbat day will be the 
unanointing of thee, that day will indeed destroy thy ritual ser- 
vices. And thy cities shall become plains and be distributed 
among the Assyrians : even thy fortified cities shall be for dis- 
tribution, from Tyre to the river and from sea to sea, and from 


13 mountain to the mountain. And the land shall be for deso- 


lation with them who inhabit it, for the fruits of their devices. 


(c) The chorus, or Sion. 


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(p) . Feed thou thy people with thy crook—the flock of 
thy heritage—them who are by themselves in a forest in the 
midst of yonder Carmel. 

(J) They shall feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days 
ofold. And as in the days of thy coming out of Egypt, you 
shall see wonderful things. Nations shall see and be confound- 
ed, and because of all the mighty power of these, they will 
lay their hands on their mouths. Their ears will be stopped. 
They will lick dust like serpents trailing on the ground; they 
will be confounded in their enclosure. 

(p) At the Lord our God let them be confounded and. 
struck with terror because of thee. Who is a God like unto 
thee, taking away iniquities, and passing by the transgressions 
of the remnant of his heritage? He hath not kept his anger 
in remembrance; because he delighteth in mercy; he will 
turn and have compassion on us: he will bury deep our inl- 
quities ; they shall be whelmed in the depths of the sea. All 
our sins he will give up for truth to Jacob, as an act of mercy 
to Abraham as he sware to our fathers, according to the days 
which have been heretofore. 


NAHUM. 
The sentence on Ninve. 
The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkosite. 


God is zealous. The Lord is about to take vengeance : 
the Lord is about to take vengeance with wrath: the Lord 
is about to take vengeance on his adversaries, and to destroy 
utterly his enemies, himself. , 

(a) The Lord is slow to anger, though his power is great; 
will not the Lord then acquit the innocent? Is his way in de- 
struction and whirlwind, when clouds are the dust of his feet? 
When he rebuketh the sea he maketh it dry, and drieth up all 
the rivers. Bashan and Carmel are diminished and the bloom 


scams ee a IES 


(a) An objection. (b) The answer. 


Ch. Il. NAHUM. 


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of Libanus languisheth. At him the mountains quake and the 
hills tremble: at his presence the earth is startled—the world 


6 and all its inhabitants. At the presence of his wrath who can 


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stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath 
dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to 
pieces. — 

(b) The Lord is kind. to them who wait for him ina 
day of distress: and he knoweth them who reverence him. 
When with a deluging march he maketh destruction ; them 
who raise themselves up and are his enemies, darkness shall 
pursue. 

What are you devising agaist the Lord? He will make 
complete destruction, and not punish twice by distress for 
the same thing. Because one shall be utterly destroyed, and 
consumed like bindweed and dry stubble ; shall a reasoning 
against the Lord proceed frem thee, O wicked city, devising 
things in opposition ? Thus saith the Lord, With respect to 
the ruler of many waters! they shall be so dispersed, that 
what thou hearest shall be heard no more. I will now break 
his sceptre from thee, and burst the bands asunder. Concern- 
ing thee the Lord will command, let none of thy name be 
sown any more. From the house of thy God I will root out 
the graven and molten images ; “1 will make it a sepulchre 
for. thee.” 

(p) Because yonder on the mountain are the swift feet of 
one bringing good news—even of one announcing peace ; 
O Juda, solemnize thy festivals; pay thy vows; for they shall 
no more proceed to pass through thee for conflict. Iti is com- 
pletely laid waste, entirely removed. 

Into thy presence came up panting one who is delivered 
from affliction. Watch the way; strengthen thy loins; act man- 
fully with all thy might, since the Lord hath averted contume- 
ly from Jacob, as he did reproach from Israel, smce emptiers 
have emptied them out and destroyed their branches—the in- 
struments of their tyranny from among men—their mighty men 
insulting with fire. In the day of his preparation the reins of their 
chariots, and the horsemen will be disordered in their ranks ; : 
and the chariots will justle together and be entangled with one. 
another in the streets. The appearance.of them is like flaming 


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torches and like streamy lightning. Their grandees will recol- 
lect and flee by day; but they shall be weak in their march. 
While they shall be hasting to her walls, and preparing their 
out guards ; the gates of the cities are opened, and the pala- 
ces are fallen. And the empress herself is exposed to view ; 
even she herself is gone up, and her maids are led along coo- 
ing plaintively like doves, in their hearts. As for Ninive, her 
waters are like a standing pool. They who fled away made 
no halt, nor was there one who looked back. ‘They plundered 
the silver; they plundered the gold ; but of her furniture there 
was no end; every one is loaded with her precious utensils. 
What quaking and driving ! what groans and heart breaking! 
what feebleness of knees and pangs in every loin! what black- 
ness, like that of a pot, on the countenance of all! where is the 
habitation of the lions, and the feeding places of the young 
lions ? Where had the old lions gone, that a young lion en- 
tered and there was none to scare him ? The old lion had seiz- 


ed enough for his whelps, and hac strangled for his lionesses, 


and had filled his hole with prey, and his den with ravin: 
behold I am against thee saith the Lord Almighty, and I will 
burn out thy multitude with smoke; and a sword shall devour 
thy lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth ; and of 
thy deeds nothing more shall be heard. 

O bloody city, wholly perfidious and full of lies! shall 
not thy prey be handled? A sound of whips! and the sound 
of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse! and 
bounding chariot! and of the cavalry advancing! and of the 
glittering sword and gleamy arms! and of the multitude of 
wounded! and of the hideous crash! Though there was no 
bound to her nations, they shall be weak of body by reason 
of great fornication. 

O fair harlot and bewitching mistress of sorceries, who 
sellest nations by thy whoredom, and peoples by thy sorce- 
ries ! behold Iam against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, 
and I will expose thy skirts to view; and shew nations ‘thy 
shame ; and kingdoms, thy dishonour: and cast abomination 
on thee according to thine impurities ; and make thee a pub- 
lick example, so that every one who seeth thee shall go down 
from thee, and say, Wretched Ninive! who can bemoan her? 
Whence can I find comfort for her ? 


Ch. Hf. NAHUM. 


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Prepare a funeral cake! attune the lyre! prepare the funeral 
cake of Ammon! she dwelt among rivers; water was around her. 


9 The sea was her dominions, and water, her walls, and Ethiopia 


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and Egypt, her strength; and the end of her flight was not stop- 
ped and the Lybians were her auxiliaries. Yet she is to go cap- 
tive into banishment ; and her infants shall be dashed to the 
ground at the head of all the streets; and for all her splendid 
treasures lots shall be cast; and all her grandees shall be bound 
with fetters. And as for thee thou shalt be made drunk and be 
despised, and shalt seek for thyself a resting place from ene- 
mies. All thy fortresses are like figs which have watchers ; 
when shaken they will fall into the mouth of the eater. Behold 
thy people in thee are like women ; the gates of thy land shall 


_ be opened wide to thine enemies ; a fire shall utterly devour 


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thy bars. Draw thee water for a siege, and fortify thy bul- 
warks. Go down into the clay, and let him be trampled with 
straw. Make it harder than any brick. There a fire shall de- 
vour thee; a sword shall cut thee off. Like a locust it will 
devour thee; and like a brouchus locust thou shalt be afflicted. 
Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise, above the stars of hea- 
ven ; the brouchus came rushing on, and is flown. Thy mer- 
chandise is swept away like the attelebos locust—like the 
small locust mounted on a hedge, in a cold day : the sun broke 
out and they are swept away, and their place is not known, 
Alas for them! thy shepherds slumbered ; an Assyrian king 
lulled to sleep thy mighty men: thy people fled to the moun- 
tains and there was none to rally them. There is no cure for 
thy bruise. Thy wound is festered. All that hear the news of 
thee will clap their hands at thee. For upon whom hath not 
thy wickedness come continually ? 


AMBAKUM OR HABAKKUK. 
The vision which Ambakum the prophet saw. 
(p) How long, O Lord shall I cry, and thou not hearken? 


How long shall I being injured cry to thee, and thou not save? 
Why hast thou pointed out to me to behold labours and sor- 


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rows, misery and impiety ? A suit is instituted against me 
and the judge receiveth [bribes] therefore law is disregarded 
and the cause is not brought to an issue. Because a wicked 
man oppresseth the just, therefore wrong pga will be 
iven. 

(J) See ye despisers! and view intently and be amazed 
at wonderful things and vanish. For in your days I am doing 
a work which you will not believe though: one tell you. 

For lo! Iam raising up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty na- 
tion, which marcheth over the breadth of the earth, to possess 


7 dwellings which belong not to them. He is terrible and illus- 


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trious; his judgment will be from himself, and from himself 
his prophesy will proceed. His horses can out leap leopards 
and are swifter than the lynxes of Arabia. When his horse- 
men have mounted, they willrush impetuously from afar, and 
will fly like an eagle, eager for prey. Destruction will come on 
the wicked who set themselves against him ; and he will ga- 
ther captives like the sand. He indeed will riot. in kings; and 
petty princes will be his scorn. Of every fortress he will make 
a scoff and will raise a mount and take it. Then he will change 
his mind and depart and be pacified. 

(p) This is the majesty which belongeth to my God. Art 
not thou from everlasting? O Lord, my God, my Holy Onet 
let us not die. Thou, O Lord, hast appointed this for judg- 
ment : and formed it that its correction may work conviction 
in me. Thine eye is too pure to behold wicked deeds, or to 
look on the labours of sorrow. Why lookest thou upon des- 
pisers? Wilt thou be silent when the wicked swallow up the 
righteous? Wilt thou make these men like the fishes of the 
sea, and like those reptiles which have no leader? He hath 
drawn up destruction witha hook, and hath dragged out one 
with a dredge, and. enclosed another with his sweep net. For 
this cause he will rejoice and his heart will be glad ; therefore 
he will sacrifice to his net and burn incense to his dredge. Be- 
cause by these he made his mess rich and his food delicious, 
shall he on the account of this cast his dredge, and. not spare 
to slay nations continually? 

I will stand on my watch and-go up upon a rock and 


look around, that | may see what he will say to me and what 
VOL. III. 3 F 


Ch. Il. . HABAKKUK. 


answer I shall receive to my βϑροοίμιοδον And the Lord: an- 
swered and said, 

(J). Write a Vision: write it distinctly i ina adh that. the 
reader may ttace these things ; for the vision is for a time yet 
to come. But it will spring up at last and will not be vain. 
Though he may tarry, wait for him; for he will assuredly come 
and will not fail. If any one draw back my soul hath no plea- 
sure in him. But the just shall live by faith in me. 

δ Now this arrogant and contemptuous man—this. man of 
boasts shall not exceed a certain bound. He enlarged his soul 
like Hades and like death was not satisfied. When he shall 
have gathered to him all the nations and received for himself 

6 all the peoples, will they not. all take up a parable against 
him. and a fable to tell of him, saying, Wo to him who is heap- 
ing up for himself things which do not belong to him? For 

7 how long? And making his yoke grievously heavy. For biters 
of him shall start up suddenly. And the plotters against thee | 

8 shall be sober and thou shalt be plunder for them. Because 
thou hast plundered many nations, all the remaining peoples 
shall plunder thee for the blood of mankind, and for the im- 

_pieties of a land and acity and of all them who inhabit. it. 
9 Wo to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he 
10 may raise his nest high to be out of the reach of evils. Thou 
hast contrived shame for thy house; thou hast provoked many 
11 peoples and thy soul hath sinned; for a stone out of a wall 
will cry out, and a worm from a beam will proclaim these 
things.. ) 
12 Wo to him who. belch a city with blood and Such 
13 eth up a city with iniquities! Are not these things from the 
Lord Almighty? When many nations have fainted by fire, 
14 and many peoples have been dispirited, that the earth may be 
filled with a knowledge of the glory of God. Like water it will 
cover them. 
Pb Wo to him who maketh his neighbour dail a foamy in- 
toxicating draught, making him drunk that he may inspect his 
16 caves. Because of thy glory drink thou also a full draught of 
-dishonour, and be confounded at heart and shaken. The cup 
of the right hand of the Lord is come round to thee and. dis- 
17 honour is heaped upon thy glory. For the impiety at Libanus 


Ch, IIL. HABAKKUK. 


shall cover thee and the sufferings of wild beasts shall terrify — 
thee, on the account of the blood of mankind, and for the 
wickedness of a land and a city and of all them who inhabit it. 

18 Of what avail is a graven thing, that they have engraved: it? 
Did one cause a molten mass, a false fantasy, to be cast, be- 
cause the caster had a confidence that by casting he would 

19 make dumb idols? Wo to him who saith to wood, Awake; 
arise. And to stone, be thou exalted. The one is indeed a fan- 

20 tasy; and the other, a plating of gold and silver: there is no 
breath in it. But the Lord-is in his holy temple. Let all the 
earth be awed at his presence. 


ΠῚ. The Prayer of Ambakum the prophet; with an Ode. 


2 O Lord, I have heard the report of thee and am terrified: 
I have considered thy works and am struck with amaze. In 
the midst of two living beings thou wilt be known; when the | 
years draw nigh thou wilt be acknowledged; when the time is 
come thou wilt be pointed out: when my soul is troubled, in 
wrath remember mercy. God will come from Thaiman, even 
the Holy One from the thick shady mountains of Pharan. 
A His glory obscured the heavens; and the earth was full of his 
praise. His splendor will be like light—beaming rays in his. 
hands, which impressed a lasting love of his Majesty. 
Before him Logos [the word] will march, and advance into 
6 the plain. He stood and the earth was shaken: he looked, and 
nations melted away : the mountains were violently convulsed, 
7 the everlasting hills melted, Instead of labours I beheld his — 
marches of old. The dwellings ofthe Ethiopians shall be ter- 
8 rified! And the tents of the land of Madian! Wast thou, Ὁ 
Lord, angry with the rivers? Or was thy wrath against the 
rivers ? Or thine indignation against a sea, that thou shouldst 
9 mount thy horses? Thy riding is indeed salvation. Thou hast 
bent thy bow effectually against sceptres. The Lord saith, “‘ The 
10 land of rivers shall be broken; peoples shall see and be in 
pangs.” Thouart scattering the rolling waters. The deep roar- 
11 ed. It swelled high. The sun was withdrawn : and the moon 
stood on its orbit. Thy bolts will glance for light, for a glare 
12 of the lightening of thine arms. With a threat thou canst dimi- 


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Ch. Il. HABAKKUK. 


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nish a land, and with wrath crush nations. Thou hast marched 
forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed 
One. Thou wilt pour death on the head of transgressors, thou. 
hast raised chains up to the neck. Thou hast struck with con- 
sternation the heads of mighties, at this they will be appalled! 
‘They will slacken their reins and be like a poor man eating 
in secret, whilst thou art pressing into the sea thy horses ruf- 
fling a mighty water. 

. I watched myself; and at-the sound of the prayer of my 
lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and 
under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the 
day of affliction, at the time of his coming to the people of 
my neighbourhood. Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will. 
there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail, 
and the fields will supply no food——For want of food theflocks 
have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls; As for me, I 
will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour. 
The Lord God is my strength, and will guide my feet to the 
end. He maketh me walk in nigh places; that I may triumph 
with his song. 


SOPHONIAS. 


THE word of the Lord which came to Sophonias the Chusite, 
the son of Godolias son of Amorias, son of Lzekias in the ilage 
of Josias son of Amos king of Juda. 

Let there be a total failure from the face of this land, saith. 
the Lord. Let man and beast perish. Let the birds of the air 
and the fishes of the sea perish. As for the wicked, they shall - 
be without strength; and I will remove transgressions from the 
face of this land, saith the Lord. I will indeed stretch forth my 
hand against Juda, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 
And I will remove out of this place the names of Baal and 
the names of her priests; and them who worship the host of 
heaven on the house topsboth those worshippers and them 
also who swear by the Lord and who swear also by their king; 
and them who turn aside from the Lord, and them who seek 
not the Lord, and them who cleave not to him. Be struck with 
awe, at the presence of the Lord God, for the day of the Lord 


Ch. 11, SOPHONIAS. » 


is near at hand. Because the Lord hath prepared his sacrifice 
ἃ and hallowed his guests; therefore it shall come to pass in the 
day of the sacrifice of the Lord, that I will execute vengeance 
on the chiefs and on the house of the king, and on all them who 
9 are clothed with’strange apparel. And I will punish publicly be- 
fore the gates, on that day, them who fill the house of the Lord 
10 their God with impiety and deceit. And it shall come to pass 
in that day, saith the Lord, that there shall be a sound of shout- 
ing from the gate of the warriors, and a doleful lamentation 
from the second gate, and a great crashing from the hills. 
11 Raise the song of woe, ye who inhabit the stormed city; be- 
cause all the people are like Chanaan. And they who were elat- 
12 ed with silver are to be all cut off. Therefore it shall come to 
pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and 
execute vengeance on the men who are despisers—upon their 
stores. And as for them who say in their hearts, “The Lord. 
will neither do good nor harm,” their wealth shall be for plun- 
13 der; and their houses, for desolation. Though they build hous- 
es, they shall not inhabit them; and though they plant vine- | 
14 yards; they shall not drink the wine thereof; because the great 
day of the Lord is near—is near and hasting with great speed. 
The sound of the day of the Lord is bitter, and dreadful things 
15 are ordained: that day will be a mighty day of wrath; a day 
of tribulation and distress: a day of wasting and desolation; a 
16 day of gloom and darkness; a day of clouds and thick dark- 
ness; a.day of the trumpet and shouting against the fortified 
17 cities and against the lofty towers. And I will bring distress 
upon the men and they shall walk as if blind. Because they 
have ‘sinned against the Lord, therefore he will pour out their 
blood like dust and their flesh as dung. And their silver and 
their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the 
indignation of the Lord. By the fire of his zeal the whole land 
shall be consumed, for he will bring speedy destruction on all 
the inhabitants of this land. 
IJ. . Assemble and make joint supplication, Ὁ unimproved na- 
2 tion, before you become like a flitting flower—before the wrath 
ofthe Lord come upon you—before the day of the fierce an- 
3 ger of the Lord reach you. Seek the Lord all ye meek of the 
land; exercise judgment and seek righteousness, and live an- 


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swerably; that you may be sheltered in the day of the anger of 
A the Lord. For Gaza shall be plundered and Ascalon shall be 
a waste; and Azotus shall be driven out at noon day; presage 
ron shall be rooted out. 
5 (J) Alas for them who inhabit. sds sea coast—the ε emi- 
grants from Crete! a word of the Lord is against you in Cha- 
naan, the land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you from 
your habitations. And Crete shall be a pasture for flocks and 
a fold for sheep; and the coast shall be for the remnant of 
the house of Juda. ‘They shall feed upon them. In the houses 
of Ascalon they will lie down in the evening for fear of the 
children of Juda. Because the Lord their God hath visited 
8 them; therefore he will bring back their captivity. I have heard 
the revilings of Moab and the buffets of the children of Am- 
mon, with which they have reproached my people, and mag- 
nified themselves against my borders: therefore as I live, saith 
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be like So-— 
dom and the children of Ammon like Gomorra; and Damascus 
shall be left like the heap of a winnowing floor, and shall be 
desolate forever, that the remnant of my people may spoil them: 
10 and the remains of my nation shall inherit them. This they 
shall have for their haughtiness, and their reproaches and 
11 for magnifying themselves against the Lord Almighty. The 
Lord will display himself ilustriously against them, and will 
root out all the gods of the nations of the earth, and all the 
isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place 
12 —even you Ethiopians are the victims of my sword. And he 
13 will stretch forth his hand against the north, and destroy the 
14. Assyrian and make Ninive a desolation—dry as a desart: and 
in the midst of it flocks shall feed and all the wild beasts of 
the land. In its stalls the chameleons and porcupines shall make 
their beds; and wild beasts shall utter their voice in its vaults, 
15 and ravens in its gates; for a cedar is the only relict of it. This 
is the scornful city which dwelleth securely, which saith in 
her heart, “1 am and there is none besides me. How it is be- 
come a desolation, the haunt of wild beasts! Every one who 
passeth through it will express his pity and shake his hands. 
1|. (p) Oh! the illustrious and redeemed city! This dove 
hearkened not to a voice. She received not instruction: she 
trusted not in the Lord; nor did she draw near to her God: her 


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3 chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the 
4 wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning: her pro- 
phets are enthusiasts, arrogant men: her priests profane the 
5 holies and unhallow the law: But the righteous Lord is in the 
midst of her and will not do an unjust thing. Every morn- 
ing he will bring his judgment to light; for it was not hidden, 
nor did he countenance injustice for solicitation, nor make in- 
_ justice successful. | 
6 (Π With destruction I drag’d down the proud. Their 
towers were made desolate. I will make their highways entire- 
ly waste, that none may travel them. Their cities are destroyed 
7 so that there is not a man—not an inhabitant. I have spoken. 
Nevertheless fear me, and receive instruction and you shall not 
be cut off out of her sight. All that I have inflicted on her, re- 
pair thou. Arise betimes. 
8 (p) All the gleanings of them are spoiled. 
(J) On that very account, wait thou for me, saith the 
Lord, until the day of my resurrection for a testimony. For this 
judgment of mine is for the assemblies of nations; to admit 
kings, to pour out all the fury of my wrath on them. For by 
9 the fire of my zeal all this land shall be utterly destroyed, that 
I may then bring back upon peoples a tongue for its genera- 
tion, that they may all invoke the name of the Lord—that they 
10 may serve him under one yoke. From the ends of the rivers of 
Ethiopia I will expect them; among my dispersed they shall 
11 bring sacrifices for me. In that day thou shalt not be put to 
shame for all thy devices, which thou hast impiously devised 
against me; because I will then take away from thee those tri- 
fles which occasion thy haughtiness, that thou mayst no more 
12 continue to boast of my holy mountain; and I will then expect 
in ‘thee a meek and lowly people; and the remnant of Israel 
13 will revere the name of the Lord, and no more commit iniqui- 
ty, nor speak vain things; nor shall a deceitful tongue be 
found in their mouth. . 
(p) Because they shall feed and lie down and there shall 
14 be none to make them afraid. Rejoice, O daughters of Sion, 
Make proclamation, O daughters of Jerusalem! Be glad and 
15 rejoice with thy whole heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. The 
Lord hath taken away thy transgressions: he hath redeemed 


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thee out of the hand of thine enemies. The king of Israel— 
the Lord is in the midst of thee; thou shalt no more see evils. 
16 At that time the Lord will say to Jerusalem, ‘ Take cou- 
17 rage, Sion. Let not thy hands hang down. The Lord thy God 
is with thee. The Mighty one will save thee. He will bring thee — 
gladness and renew thee in his love; and rejoice over thee with © 
18 joy as in the day of a festival; when I have gathered those of 
you who have been bruised.” 
(J) Ha! who is this that hath tiléen up a reproach against — 
19 her? Behold here am I—I am dealing with thee for thy sake 
at that time, saith the Lord, and I will save her who hath been 
trodden down; and take back her who hath been put away; 
and I will make them a boast and renowned in every land. 
20 And they shall be ashamed αἵ. that time when I deal kind- 
ly with you. Even at the time when I take you back. For I _ 
will make you renowned and a boast among all the people of 
the earth, when [ bring back your Schetanen fan their eyes, 
saith the Lord. 


- HAGGAT. 


1. IN the second year of Darius the king, in the sixtli month, 
on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came by νὴ 
ministry of Haggai the prophet, saying, 

Say to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of Juda, 

2 and to Jesus the son of Josedek the high priest, these words; 
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, This people say, The time is 

3 not come to build the house of the Lord. Now a word of the 
4. Lord is come by the ministry of Haggai the prophet, saying, Is 
it indeed time for you to dwell in your cieled houses, whilst 

5 this house of ours is lying waste? Now therefore thus saith the 
6 Lord Almighty, Turn your thoughts on your ways. You have 
sown much and gathered little. You have eaten but have not 
had enough. You have drunk, but not plentifully; you have 

7 clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed. And he who 
earned wages put it in a bag with holes. Thus saith the Lord 

8 Almighty apply your thoughts to these ways of yours: Go up 
ii the mountain and cut iiitibers Build this. house that I may 
take pleasure in it and be glorified, saith the Lord. You have 


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looked for much, but little came; and when it was brought home 
I blowed upon it on this account, saith the Lord, because my 
house is waste and you attend every one to his own house; 
therefore the heaven shall refrain from dew and the earth shall 
withhold her products; and I will bring a sword on this land 
and on the mountains, and on the corn, and on the wine, and 
on the oil even on all that the earth produceth, and on the men 
and on the cattle and on all the labours of their hands. 

Thereupon Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of 
Juda, and Jesus the son of J osedek the high priest, and all the 
remnant of the people hearkened to the voice of the Lord their 
God and to the words of the prophet Haggai, as the Lord their 
God had sent him to them. And when the people were terrifi- 
ed at the presence of the Lord, then Haggai, a messenger of 
the Lord among the messengers of the Lord to the people, 
said, “I am with you saith the Lord.” And the Lord stirred 
up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of 
Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedek the high priest, 
and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they went 
and worked at the house of the Lord Almighty their God on 
the four and twentieth day of the sixth month in the second 
year of Darius the king. 

Inthe seventh month, on the twenty first day of the month, 
the Lord spoke by the ministry of Haggai the prophet, say- 
ing, Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the, tribe 
of Juda, and to Jesus the son of J osedek the high priest, anc 
to all the remnant of the people, saying, Is there any of you 
who hath seen this house in its former glory? How then must 
you look upon this now as a mere nothing before you! But 
be strong now Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and be strong, Je- 
sus son of Josedck the high priest; and be strong all ye peo- 
ple of the land, saith the Lord, and work: for I am with you 
saith the Lord Almighty, and my spirit is in the midst of you. 
Be of good courage; for thus saith the Lord Almighty, Yet 
once more, I will shake the heaven and the earth including the 


7sea and dry land, and I will convulse all the nations; and the 


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choice things of all the nations will come, and I will fill this 
very house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty. The silver is 


‘mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord Almighty. Because 


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the glory of this house shall be great, the latter greater than 
the first, saith the Lord Almighty; therefore in this very place 
I will give peace, saith the Lord Almighty—even peace of 
mind for a possession to every one active in again raising up 
this temple. 

On the twenty fourth of the ninth month, in the second 
year of Darius, a word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, 
saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Ask the priests the 
law, saying, If a man take holy flesh in the skirt of his mantle; 
and the skirt of his mantle touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or 
oil, or any kind of food, will they be hallowed? And the priest in 
reply, said, No. Then Haggai said, If a polluted person—one 
who is unclean by a dead body touch any of these things will 
they be polluted? And the priests answered and said, They will 
be polluted. Thereupon Haggai said in reply, So is this people 
and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all 
the works of their hands. And whoever shall come near there 
shall be polluted because of their morning burdens. Are they 
to be afflicted with grief on account of their toils? And have 
you hated a reprover in the gates? Recollect now, I beseech 
you, from that day back, before there was a stone laid upon a 
stone in the temple of the Lord, What were ye? When you 
came to measure twenty measures of barley, it was become 
ten. And when you went to the wine lake to draw off fifty mea- 
sures, there were only twenty. I smote you with blasting and 
mildew and hail in all the works of your hands when you turn- 
ed not to me, saith the Lord. Turn now your thoughts from 
this day forward, from this twenty fourth of the ninth month: 
and from the day on which the foundation of the house of the 
Lord is laid, lay up in your minds whether that will be the 
case in the threshing floor? whether the vine or the fig tree or 
the pomegranate or the olive tree will any more be unproduc- 
tive? From this very day I will bless. | 

Moreover a word of the Lord came a second time to Hag- 
gai the prophet on the twenty fourthday of the month, saying, 
Say to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel of the tribe of Juda— 
Say, “1 will shake the heaven and the earth including the sea 
and the dry land, and I will overthrow the thrones of kings and 
destroy the power of the kings of the nations: and I will over- 


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throw the chariots and the charioteers; and horses and their ri- 
ders shall come down every one with a sword against his bro- 

3 ther. On that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee 
Zorobabel the son of Salathiel my servant, saith the Lord, 
and make thee a signet, because I have chosen thee, saith the 
Lord Almighty. 


ZACHARIAS. 


i. In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the 
word of the Lord came to Zacharias the Barachite, the son 

2 of Addo the prophet, saying, The Lord was very angry with 
3 your fathers, therefore thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the 
Lord Almighty, Turn to me, saith the Lord of Hosts and 
4 1 will turn to you saith the Lord of Hosts. And be not like 
your fathers to whom the former prophets called, saying, 
‘Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Turn from your evil ways 
and from your wicked devices,” but they hearkened not, nor 

5 gave attention to listen to me, saith the Lord. As for your 
- fathers, where are they ? And the prophets, will they live for- 
6 ever? But receive ye my words and my statutes—all that I, 
by my spirit, give in charge to my servants the prophets, who. 
reached your fathers, when they addressed them and said, 
‘‘As the Lord Almighty determined to deal with us according to 
our ways, and according to our devices, so hath he dealt with us.” 


7 Π. “ON the twenty fourth of the eleventh month, which 
‘s the month Sabat, in the second year of Darius, the word of 
the Lord came to Zacharias, the Barachite, the son of Addo, 
the prophet, saying— 

8 (I had been viewing the night and lo! a man mounted on a red 
horse, and he stood between the shady mountains, and behind him 

9 were horses, red and ash coloured, and dappled and white. And I 
said, Lord what are these: and the angel who was talking with me 

10 said to me, I will shew thee what these are. Then the man who 
stood between the mountains, addressing me said, These are they 
41 whom the Lord sent to go round this land. Then they addressed 
the angel of the Lord who stood between the mountains, and said, 
We have gone round all this land, and lo all the land is inhabited, 
12 and quiet. And the angel of the Lord, answered and said, O Lord 


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Almighty, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and 
the cities of Juda, which thou hast overlooked those seventy years? 

13 And the Lord Almighty answered the angel, who had been talking 

14 with me, with good determinations, and comfortable words. Where- 
upon the angel who had been talking with me said to me—He cried. 
with a loud voice saying—) 

15 Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have been jealous of Je- 
rusalem and Sion with great jealousy : and with great wrath 
Tam angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was 
indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief; 

16 therefore thus saith the Lord, I will turn to Jerusalem, with 
compassion and my house shall be rebuilded jn it, saith the 
Lord Almighty, and a line shall be stretched on Jerusalem. 

17 And again the angel who had been talking with me, said 
to me—Again he cried with a loud voice and said, Thus 
saith the Lord Almighty, Again shall cities abound with pros- 
perity. And again the Lord will compassionate Sion and make 
choice of Jerusalem. | 

18 Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo, four horns! 
and I said to the angel who was talking with me, Lord, what 

19 are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which 

20 have scattered Juda and Israel and Jerusalem. Then the Lord 

21 shewed me four carpenters. And I said, What are these going 
to do? And he said, Those four horns which scattered Juda 
and Israel are broken, and not one of them hath raised a head; 
now these are come to sharpen for themselves those four 
horns, namely the nations which lifted up a horn against the 
land of the Lord, to. scatter it. 

I. Then I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! a man with 

2 a measuring line in his hand! and I said to him, Whither 
art thou going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem 
3 to see how broad it ts, and what is its length. Now behold 
the angel who had been talking with me had stopped—and — 
4. another angel came out to meet him and spoke to him saying, 
“Run and speak to that young man and say,” Jerusalem shall 
be crouded with inhabitants by reason of the multitude of 
5 men and cattle therein. And I will be to her; saith the Lord, 
a wall of fire around ; and J will be a glory in the midst of her. 
6 ‘O flee! fice from the land of the north, saith the Lord, 
for from the four winds of heaven I will gather you, saith the 


th. ΤΙ. ZACHARIAS. 


7 Lord. To Sion make your escape, ye who inhabit the daugh-' 
8 ter of Babylon! for thus saith the Lord Almighty. He behind 
glory hath sent me against the nations which plundered you : 

9 for he who toucheth you, is like one touching the apple of 
his eye. For behold I am bringing my hand upon them ; and 
they shall be spoils for them who were their vassals: and you 
shall know that the Lord Almighty hath sent me. 

LO Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Sion! for lo! Iam 
LL coming ; and I will dwell amidst thee, saith the Lord; and 
many nations will flee to the Lord in that day, and be his peo- 
ple and dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the 
12 Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee. And the Lord will settle 
Juda in his portion, in the holy land; and will again make 
13 choice of Jerusalem. Let all flesh be struck with awe, at the 
presence of the Lord, for he is risen up from his holy clouds. 
ΠῚ. Then the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest stand- 
ing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood at his right 

2 hand to oppose him. And the Lord said to Satan, The Lord 

rebuke thee, Satan! even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusa- 
lem, rebuke thee! lo! is not this like a brand snatched from 
fire? (Now Jesus was clothed with filthy garments and stood 
4 before the angel.) ‘Then [the Lord] addressing them who 
stood before him, spoke, saying, Take away from him those 
filthy garments ; (and to him he said, Behold I have taken 
away thy transgressions) and clothe ye him with a flowing 
robe and put on his head a clean mitre. And when they had 
put a clean mitre on his head and clothed him, then the angel 
of the Lord stood up. And the angel of the Lord protested 
to Jesus saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If thou wilt 
walk in my ways, and keep my statutes, thou shalt judge 
my house. And if thou wilt carefully watch my court I will 
give thee men conversant with these attendants. 

8  Hearken now, O Jesus the high priest, thou and they near 
thee who sit in presence, since they are men who typify won- 
derful things: since lo! Iam bringing my servant Anatole, 

9 [the Day-spring ;] since with regard to that stone which I 
have set before Jesus, upon that one stone there are seven 
eyes; behold I am digging a pit saith the Lord Almighty, 

10 and I will feel all the iniquity of this land in one day. In that 


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day, saith the Lord Almighty, you will be inviting every one 

his neighbour under a vine, and under a fig tree. 

Then the angel who talked with me turned and roused 
me, as when a man is roused from his sleep, and said to me, 
what dost thou see? And I said, I have looked and lo! a can- 
dlestick all of gold with the lamp dish on the top of it; and se- 

ven lamps on the top of it; and seven pipes, for the seven lamps 
on the top of it ; and two olive trees over it, one on the right of 
its lamp dish and the other on its left. Then I inquired and 
spoke to the angel who was talking with me, and said, Lord 
what are these ? And the angel who was talking with me, an- 
swered and said to me, Dost thou not know what these are ? 
When I said, No, lord. Then he answered and said to me, 

This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, 

Not by mighty power nor by strength, but by my spirit 
saith the Lord Almighty. Who art thou; to complete this 
mountain—this great one—this before Zorobabel ! I will in- 
deed bring out the stone of the inheritance, an equality of 
favour, a free gift of it. 

Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, The hands 
of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his 
hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know, (since the Lord 
Almighty hath sent me to thee, since a certain person hath 
despised these as small days,) that those seven eyes will be 
gladdened, when they shall see the plumb-line in the hand of 
Zorobabel; they are the eyes which survey the whole earth. 

Then I answered and said to him, What are those two olive 
trees. which are on the right and left of the candlestick? And 
I inquired a second time and said to him, What are those two 
branches of the olive trees which are in the handles of those 
two funnels of gold, which are pouring into and supplying 
the golden pipes? And he said to me, Dost thou not know 
what these are? And when IJ said, No, lord. Then he said 
to me, These are the two sons of fatness. They stand before 
the Lord of the whole earth. 

Then I turned and lifted up mine eyes and looked, and 
lo! a flying sickle. And he said to me, What dost thou see? 
And I said, I see a flying sickle twenty cubits long, and ten’ 
cubits broad. Whereupon he said to me, This is the curse 


Ch... ¥1. ZACHARIAS. 


which is going forth over the face of the whole earth. Since 
every thief on the one hand is to be punished with death, 
and every false swearer on the other hand is to be punished ; 
4, therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty ; and it 
shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of 
him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall 
lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the 
stones thereof. 

δ΄ Then the angel who was talking with me went out and 
said to me, Look up with thine eyes and see this which is 
6 going out. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the 
measure which is going away. Then he said, This is the ini- 
7 quity of them in all this land. Then lo! a talent of lead was 
brought out; and lo! a woman was seated in the midst of the 
8 measure. And he said, This is the iniquity. Then he threw 
her down into the measure and he threw the mass of lead on 
9 her mouth. And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and lo! two 
women came out, and there was a wind by their wings. Now 
10 they had the wings of a stork. And when they had lifted up 
the measure between heaven and earth, I said to the angel 
11 who was talking with me, Whither are they carrying the mea- 
sure? And he said to me, To build a house for it in the land 
of Babylon and make preparation that they may place it there 

on its base. : 
ΨΙ. Then turned, and lifting up mine eyes I looked, and lo! 
four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the 
mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were 
red horses, and in the second chariot black horses, and in the 
_ third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot bay spot- 
4 ted horses. Whereupon addressing the angel who was speak- 
ing with me, I said, Lord, what are these? And the angel who 
5 was talking with me answered and said, These are the four 
winds of heaven. They are going out to wait on the Lord 
6 of the whole earth. That in which were the black horses went 
out to the land of the north; and the white wentout after them; 
7 and the spotted went out to the land of the south; and the bay 
went out and looked with an intent to go round this land: and 
8 he said, Go and scour round this land. And when they had 
scoured round this land he cried aloud and spoke to me, say- 


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ing, Behold they who went to the land of the north have ap- 
peased my wrath in the land of the north. 

Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, Take the 
gifts of the captivity [which are coming] from their chiefs and 


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from those who have been kind to the captives and from those _ 


who have taken notice of them; and on thatsame day thou 
shalt go to the house of Josias son of Sophonias who is com- 
ing from Babylon: and thou shalt take silver and gold and 
make crowns and put one on the head of Jesus the son of Jo- 
sedek the high priest and say to him, Thus saith the Lord 


Almighty, Behold a man! his name is Anatole [Day-spring] | 


underneath him he shall spring up. And he shall build the 
house of the Lord. And he shall take authority and sit and 
rule on his throne; and there shall be a priest on his right hand; 
and there shall be a counsel of peace between both. And the 
crown shall be for them who wait, and for them who have been 
kind to the captives, and for them who have taken notice of 
them, as a token of the gratitude of the son of Sophonias, and 
as a psalm in the house of the Lord. And they who are far 
from them shall come and dwell in the house of the Lord; 

and you shall know, (since the Lord Almighty hath sent me to 
you,) that this indeed will come to pass, if you will hearken di- 
ligently to the voice of the Lord your God. 


VIL. III. AND it came to pass in the fourth year of Da- 


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rius the king, that a word of the Lord came to Zacharias on 
the fourth of the ninth month which is Chaseleu. When the 
king and his men sent Sarasar and Arbeseer to Baithel to con- 
ciliate the favour of the Lord, saying to the priests who were 
at the house of the Lord Almighty, and saying to the prophets, 


The dedication came hither in the fifth month as it hath done . 


now for many years. Then a word of the Lord of hosts came 
to me saying, Speak to all the people of the land and to the 
priests, saying, Though you fasted and mourned in the fifth 
and seventh months, lo! for seventy years; did you keep a fast 
for me ? And though you ate and drank; did you not eat and 
drink for yourselves? Were not these the words which the 
Lord spake by the ministry of the prophets who were in for- 
mer times when Jerusalem was inhabited and. in prosperity, 


Ch. VIII. ZACHARIAS, 


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and the cities around her and the hilly country and the plain 
were inhabited? Then there was a word of the Lord to Zacha- 
rias, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Execute: just 
judgment and shew mercy and compassion one to another; and 
oppress not the widow, nor the orphan, nor the stranger, nor the 
poor; and let none treasure up in his heart for evil an injury 
done by his brother; but they refused to.attend and turned. 
back contemptuously; and stopped their ears that they might 
not hear; and made-their heart disobedient that they might 
not hearken to my law; therefore (according to the words 
which the Lord Almighty by his spirit sent by the ministry 
of the former prophets) there was great wrath from the Lord 
Almighty ; that it might come to pass as he said, ‘‘As they 
hearkened not, so they shall cry and I will not listen, saith the 
Lord Almighty, and I will cast them out into all the nations 


which they knew not; and the land behind them shall be a de- 


solation, without a traveller and without a sojourner.” 


Vill. Now a word of the Lord Almighty is come saying, 


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Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I have had a great jealousy of 
Jerusalem and Sion, and with great wrath I have been jealous 
of her. But thus saith the Lord, I will return to Sion, and I 
will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be 
called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord Almighty, 
a holy mountain. Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Again old 
men and matrons shall sit in the streets of Jerusalem, every 
one with his staff in his hand, for multitude of days; and the 
streets of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in 
her streets. Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If this shall ap- 
pear impossible in the view of the remnant of this people in 
these days; shall it also be impossible in my view, saith the 
Lord. Almighty? Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Behold 1 
will save my people from the land of the east and from the 
land of the west. And I will gather them and dwell in the 
midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be 
their God in truth and in righteousness. 

Thussaith the Lord Almighty, Let your hands be strong, ye 
who in these days hear these words-from the mouth of the pro- 
phets, from the day the foundation of the house of the Lord Al- 
mighty was laid and during the time the temple hath been a 


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building. For before those days, the earnings of the mencould be 
of no avail, and the earnings of the cattle could not be lasting; 
nor could there be any security from affliction to him who 
went out or to him who came in. For I set all the men every 
one against his neighbour. But I will not now deal with the 
remnant of this people, as in the former days, saith the Lord ἡ 
Almighty: but will shew peace. Their vine shall yield its fruit.» 
And the earth shall yield its products; and the heaven shall shed 
its dew; and I will cause the remnant~of this people to inherit ᾿ 
all these things. And it shall come to pass, that as you, the 
house of Juda and the house of Israel, were for a curse among 
the nations; so I will save you, and you shall be for a blessing. 
Be of good courage and let your hands be strong, for thus 
saith:the Lord Almighty, In the same manner as 1 thought of 
afflicting you, when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord 
Almighty and I relented not; so I have determined and have my 
mind bent, in these days, on prospering Jerusalem and the 


house of Juda. Be of good courage. These are the things 


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which. ye shall do—Speak truth every one to his neighbour; 


“administer the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; and 


devise not evil in your hearts every one against his neighbour; 
and love not a false oath: for all these things I hate, saith the 
Lord Almighty. 

Then a word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying, 
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth 
fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast shall be to the house 
of Juda for jov and gladness and for cheerful festivals, and ye 
shall rejoice. Therefore love truth and peace.. Thus saith the 
Lord Almighty, There shall yet come many peoples; and the 


“ynhabitants of many cities—even the inhabitants of five cities 


shall come together to one city, saying, Let us go to pray be- οὖ 
fore the Lord and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty. Lam 
going. So many peoples and many nations will come to seek 
the face of the Lord Almighty at Jerusalem, and to conciliate 
the favour of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord Almighty, If in 
those days ten men of all the tongues of the nations take hold, 
they must take hold of the skirt of a Jew, saying, We will go 
with thee, for we have heard that God is with you. 


Ch. IX. ZACHARIAS. 


IX: 


IV... *4A BURDEN of the word of the Lord. 


In the land of Sedrach and Damascus is his sacrifice, because 


the Lord hath an eye over men, particularly over all the tribes 


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of Israel: in Hemath also—in the borders thereof. 

As for Tyre and Sidon, because they were very prudent, 
therefore Tyre built for herself bulwarks, and treasured up sil- 
ver like dust, and collected gold like dirt in the highways; but 


~on account of this the Lord will take possession of them, and he 


will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be consumed 
by fire. Ascalon shall see and be terrified; so shall Gaza, and be 
exceedingly pained: Akkaron also; because at her fall she was 
confounded. And a king shall perish out of Gaza; and Asca- 
ion shall no more be inhabited. And strangers shall dwell in 
Azotus. And I will destroy the pride of the Philistines, and 
take away their blood out of their mouths, and their abomi- 
nations from between their teeth. But they themselves shall 
be left for our God and shall be like a captain of a thousand 
in Juda; and Akkaron shall be like a Jebusite. And I will sta- 
tion for my house a guard not to be passed nor repassed. And 


- the plunderer shall no more come against them; for now I have 


10 


14, 


seen with mine own eyes. 

Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Sion! Make procla- 
mation, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold thy king is coming 
for thee. He is righteous and a saviour. He is meek and mount- 
ed on an ass, even a young colt. He will destroy chariots 
out of Ephraim and horses out of Jerusalem: and the bat- 
tle bow shall be destroyed. And there shall be a multitude and 
peace from the nations; and he shall rule over waters to the sea, 
and overrivers to the ends of the earth. As for thee, thou by the 
blood of thy covenant hast sent forth thy prisoners out of a pit 
which hath no water. You the prisoners of the congregation 
shall be placed in strong holds, and for thy one day’s sojourn- 
ing I will make thee twofold compensation. For I have bent 
thee Juda, a bow for myself and filled it with Ephraim; and I 
will raise up thy sons, O Sion, against the sons of Greece, and 
IT will handle thee as the sword of a warrior. Let but the Lord 
be against them and he will dart out like a thunderbolt. The 
Lord Almighty will sound a trumpet, and march in the bil. 


* See the note at the close of this volume. 


Ch. Χ. ZACHARIAS. 


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low of his threat. The Lord Almighty will protect them, and 
they:shall consume them and overwhelm them with sling stones; 
and drink them up as wine and fill the phials as an altar. In that 
day the Lord their God will save them—his people like a flock. 
Because holy stones are rolled on his land.— 
Because if there be any thing good it is his, if any thing 
comely it is his; with regard to corn for the youths, and fla- 
vourous wine for virgins, ask ye of the Lord, rain in its 
season, the former and latter rain. The Lord hath made ap- 
pearances, and he will give rain in plenty—to every one herb- 
age in his field. Because the prophesiers spoke of labours, 
and the diviners told false visions and lying dreams—gave 
false comfort, therefore they were dried up. Like sheep they. 
were afflicted. Because there was no healing ; against the shep- 
herds my wrath is kindled; but over the lambs I will keep 
a strict watch. The Lord God Almighty will indeed watch 
over his flock, the house of Juda, and he will array them as 
his comely horse in battle. When from him he hath looked, 
and from him drawn up im array ; then from him shall issue 
forth the wrathful bow, from him every one who sallieth out 
at the same time. And they shall be like warriors trampling 
dirt in the highways, and shall be drawn up im array for bat- 
tle. Because the Lord is with them, therefore the riders on 
horses shall be put toshame. And I will strengthen the house 
of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and settle them in their | 
houses, because I have loved them: and they shall be as if 
I had not cast them off; for Iam the Lord their God and I 
will hearken to them: and they shall be like the warriors of 
Ephraim; and their heart shall be gladdened as with wine; and 
their children shall see and be made glad; and their heart shall 
rejoice in the Lord. I will make a signal for them and receive 
them, for I will redeem them and they shall multiply as they 
have done. Though I sow them among peoples, yet they who 
are far off will remember me. They shall nurture up their ᾿ 
children and return: and I will bring them back out of the 
land of Egypt; and gather them from amongst the Assy- 
rians ; and bring them to Galaaditis and Lebanon and not 
one of them shall be left behind. And they. shall cross over a 
narrow sea and lash waves at sea; and all the depths of rivers 


Gh: MU. ZACHARIAS. 


shall be dried up, and all the haughtiness of the Assyrians 
shall be removed ; and the sceptre of Egypt shall be taken 
12 quite away. And I will strengthen them in the Lord their 
God, and in his name they shall boast; saith the Lord. 
ΧΙ. Open thy gates, Ὁ Libanus and let a fire devour thy 

2 cedars. Raise the mournful cry, O pine tree, since the cedar is 

fallen, because the mighty are in great distress. Howl ye oaks 

3 of Basan, because the thick planted forest is rooted up. A 

sound of shepherds singing the song of woe, because their 
greatness is involved in distress; a sound of lions roaring, be- ὁ 
cause the swelling of the Jordan hath distressed them. 

4 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, you are feeding the flock 
prepared for slaughter, which the possessors were slaughter- 
ing, and spared not ; and they who sold them said, “" Blessed 
be the Lord for we are enriched,”’ and their shepherds had no 
feeling for them. Therefore I will no more spare the inha- 
bitants of this land, saith the Lord. Now behold I deliver up 
the men, every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into 
the hand of his king ; and they shall smite the land, and I will 

7 not deliver out of their hand. Again I will feed the flock of 

the slaughter for Chananitis ; and I will take me two staves, 
one I had called Beauty, and the other I called Portion ; and 

8 I will feed the flock, and remove three shepherds in one 

‘ month; and my soul will be weighed down against them.— 

9 For as their souls roared against me, therefore I said, I will 

not feed you, What is dying let it die; and what is fainting 

— let it faint. And as for the rest, let them devour every one 
10 the flesh of his neighbour. And I will take my staff Beauty 

and throw it away, that I may break my covenant which I 
11 made with all these tribes. And on that day it shall be bro- 
ken ; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall. 
12 know for what cause there is a word of the Lord. Then I will 
say to them, If it seemeth good in your sight, give me my 
wages ; if not, forbear. And when they had weighed for my 
13 wages thirty pieces of silver; then the Lord said to me, Put 
them in the smelting furnace, and let me see whether it be 
proof: as I have been proved for them. So I took the thirty 
pieces of silver and threw them down in the house of the 
14 Lord, for the smelting furnace. Then I threw away the other 


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Ch, XII. ZACHARIAS,. 


15 
16 


17 


staff Portion, that I may break the ἈΒΜΡΟΒΟΥ between J uda 
and Israel. 

Then the Lord said to me, Take thee yet the pastoral 
utensils of an unskilful shepherd ; for behold I am about to 
raise up a shepherd against this land, who will not visit what 
is fainting, nor seek what is scattered ; nor heal what is bruis- 
ed; nor lead aright what is sound; but will devour the flesh 
of the choice, and tear their joints asunder. O ye feeders of © 
vanities who have forsaken the sheep. There is a sword against 
his arms, and against his right eye. Shall his arm be quite 


- withered, and his right eye psc put out? 


XI V. THE burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. 


2 


3 


The Lord who stretcheth out the heaven and layeth the foun- 
dation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him, 
saith, Behold I will make Jerusalem like shaken porches for all 
the peoples around. And by Judea there shall be a siege against 
Jerusalem, and in that day I will make Jerusalema stone to 
be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her 
will make her his mocking stock. When all the nations of the 
earth shall be gathered against her, in that day saith the Lord 
Almighty, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his 


_ yider with madness. But upon the house of Juda I will open 


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mine eyes. When I smite all the horses of the peoples with 
blindness, then will Juda’s captains of thousands say in their 
hearts, ‘‘We shall find those for us who inhabit Jerusalem by 
the Lord Almighty their God.” In that day I will make Juda’s 
captains of thousands like a firebrand among wood, and like a 
flaming torch among stubble. And they shall devour on the 
right and on the left all the peoples around. And Jerusalem 
shall again dwell by herself in Jerusalem. And the Lord will 
save the dwellings of Juda as at the beginning. 

That the boasting of the house of David may not be mag- 
nified, nor the elevation of the inhabitants of Jerusalem depend 


-upon Juda, The Lord will indeed, in that day, spread a shield 


over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the weak among them 


shall in that day be like David, and the house of David like the 


house of God—like an angel of the Lord before them. And it. 
shall come to pass, in that day, that I will seek to destroy all 


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Ch. XIII. | ZACHARIAS. 


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the nations that come against Jerusalem. And when I pour on 
the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spi- 
rit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom 
they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourn- 
ing as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first. 
born. In that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like ἡ 
the weeping of a pomegranate grove cut down in the plain. 
And the land will mourn in separate families, the family of the 
house of David by itself and their women by themselves; the 
family of the house of Nathan by itself and their women by 
themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself and their 
women by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself and their 
women by themselves; all the remaining families, every fami- 


XIII. ly by itself and their women by themselves. In that day 


to 


every place will be opened to the house of David and to the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem for the removal and for the separation. 
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, 
that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and 


_ there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will re- 


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move the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land. 
And it shall come to pass that if any man shall still prophesy, 
even his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, 
Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken lies in the name 
of the Lord. And his father and his mother who begot him 
will bind him when he prophesieth. And in that day the pro- 
phets shall be exposed to shame; every one for his vision, when 
he prophesieth: and they shall be clothed with a hairy skin be- 
cause they lied. And when one will say, I am not a prophet, 
for from my youth I am a husbandman, because a husband- 
man begot me; then I will say to him, what wounds are these 
in thy hands? And he will say, those with which I was wound- 
ed in my beloved house. 

Awake, O sword, against my shepherds, and against. 
my chief citizen, saith the Lord Almighty; I will smite the 
shepherds and the sheep shall be scattered and I will bring my 
hand on the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that in all the 
land, saith the Lord, two parts of it shall be cut off and die and 
the third part shall be left in it. And when I have passed this 
third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and 


Ch. 


_ XIV, Behold days of the Lord are coming, when thy spoils © 


XIV. _ZACHARIAS. 


—_ τὰ αν ς 


proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke my name ~ 
and 1 will hear them and say, this i is my ee and they will — 
᾿ say, the Lord is my God. ! 


2 shall be divided in thee. I will indeed gather all the nations 


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against Jerusalem for battle, and the city shall be taken and © 
the houses rifled and the women polluted. And the half of the ἢ 
city shall go forth into captivity. As for the remainder of my — 


people they shall not be utterly cut off. From this city, the 
Lord indeed will come forth and draw up in array among the 


nations, as in the day of his array in the day of battle ; a on — 
_, that day his feet will stand on the mount of olives over against 


Jerusalem on the east side and the mount of olives shall be 


cleft, east and west, a very great chasm. And the half of the 


mount will lean to the north and the half of it to the south. 
And the valley of my mountains shall be. blocked up;_and the 
valley of mountains shall be closed up even to Jasod. It shall 
be blocked up as it was inthe days of the earthquake—in the 
days of Ozias king of Juda. And when the Lord my God shall 
comeandallthe holy ones with him, it shall come to pass that on 
that day there shall not be light; there shall be chilness and 
cold during one day. That will indeed be a memorable day to 
the Lord. It will neither be day nor night; but towards evening 
there will be light. And on that day living water will flow out 
of Jerusalem; the one half of it to the eastern sea and the one 
half of it to the western sea, both in summer and spring it 
shall be so. And the Lord will be king over all the earth. In 
that day there will be one Lord and his name one, enclosing 
for Jerusalem all the land and the desert around, from Gabea 
to Remmon southward. As for Rama, it shall continue in its 


place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, — 


on to the gate of the corners and to the tower of Anameel, on 
to the king’s wine presses there shall be dwellers in it and 
there shall no more be acurse and in the inhabitance of Jeru- 
salem they shall be secure. And this shall be the plague with 
which the Lord will smite all the peoples who have warred 
against Jerusalem—their flesh shall waste away while they 
stand on their feet; and their eyes shall melt from their sockets, 
and their tongue’ shall rot in their mouth. And in that day 
there shall be a great dread of the Lord upon them. And they 


ΘΗ ΧΙν. ZACHARIAS. 


14 


15 


16 
17 
18 
19 


20 


21 


5 


- will lay hold, every one, on the hand of his neighbour and his 


hand will be grasped in his neighbour’s hand. And Juda will 
draw up inarray in Jerusalem and collect the wealth of all the | 
peoples around—gold and silver and raiment in great abun- 
dance. And the plague of the horses and the mules and the 
camels and the asses—that of all the cattle in those camps shall 
be the same as this plague. And it shall come to pass that all 
who are left of the nations which came against Jerusalem shall 
come up every year to worship the Lord Almighty and to cele- 
brate the festival of tabernacles. And it shall come to pass that 
whosoever shall not come up to Jerusalem from all the tribes 
of this land, to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even 
they shall be added to those. But if the tribe of Egypt go 
not up nor come; upon them shall be the plague with which 
the Lord will smite all the nations which come not up to ce- 
lebrate the festival of tabernacles. This shall be the punish- 
ment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations which 
decline to come up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. 

In that day there shall be on the bridle of the horse, “" Ho- 
ly to the Lord Almighty.’’ And the kettles in the house of 
the Lord shall be like the bowls before the altar. And every 
kettle in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Al- 
mighty. And all that sacrifice will come and take of them and 
boil in them. And there shall no more be a Chananite in the 
house of the Lord Almighty in that day. 


MALACHI, 


The charge of the word of the Lord to Israel by the minis- 
try of his messenger. Lay it up in your hearts I beseech you. 

I have loved you, saith the Lord. But you said, Wherein 
hast thou loved us? Was not Esau the brother of Jacob? saith 
the Lord : yet I loved Jacob and slighted Esau and made his 
borders a waste, and the houses of a desert his inheritance. 
For should he say, ‘‘ Idumea is overthrown, let us return and 
build up the waste cities.”? Thus saith the Lord Almighty, 
Let them build, but J will overturn. They shall indeed be 
surnamed, “‘ The borders of iniquity’? and ‘‘ A peaple to 
whom the Lord hath ever been opposed.”’ And your eves shal 

ViOU« 111. a 


Ch. 1]. MALACHI. 


6 


10 


11 


12 


13 


14 


see and you will say, ““ The Lord is magnified far beyond the 
borders of Israel.” 

A son honoureth a father; and a servant, his master. Now 
if I be a father, where is my honour? And if I be a master, 
where is my fear? saith the Lord Almighty. | 

As for you priests, you are they who bring dishonour on 
my name. Do you say, By what have we brought dishonour 
on thy name? By offering on mine altar polluted loaves. And 
do you say, How have we polluted them? When you said, 
The table of the Lord is polluted, you then caused no regard 
to be paid to that which was to be laid thereon. Since, if you 
offer the blind for sacrifices, it is not evil ; and if you offer the 


lame or sickly, it is not evil. Offer such now to thy governor, will 


he admit thee? Will he accept thy person? saith the Lord Al- 
mighty. Now then do you conciliate the favour of your God 
when you supplicate him? When such [offerings] are made by 
your hands, shall I for your sakes accept your persons? saith 
the Lord Almighty. Since by you the doors will be shut, and 
a fire will not be kindled on mine altar for nothing, I have no 
pleasure in you, saith the Lord Almighty; nor will I accept 
a sacrifice at your hands. Since from the risings of the sun to 
its goings down my name hath been glorified among the na- 
tions; and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a 
pure sacrifice—since my name is great among the nations, 
saith the Lord Almighty, and you profane it, by your saying, 
« The table of the Lord is polluted,” and when no regard was 
paid to the offerings laid thereon—his meats, you said, ‘““These 
are because of affliction,” and though I rejected them, saith the 
Lord Almighty, yet you offered the torn, the lame and the 
sickly; if then you bring this sacrifice shall I accept such at 
your hands, saith the Lord Almighty, when he is cursed, 
who is of ability and who hath a male in his flock and his 
vow upon him, and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupted thing? 

Because I am a great king, saith the Lord Almighty and 

my name is illustrious among the nations, now therefore 
this command is for you, O priests. If you will not hearken and 
if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the 
Lord Almighty, I will send that curse against you and curse 
your blessing. I will curse it; and disperse your blessing 


Ch. di. MALACHI. 


~-and it shall not be among you because you do not lay this to 
3 heart. Behold I set apart for you the shoulder, now I will scat- 
ter the great intestine on your faces—the great intestine of your 
4A festivals and take you to it. Now you must know, since I sent 
this command to you to be my covenant with the Levites, saith 
5 the Lord Almighty, that my covenant of life and peace was 
with him; and I gave it to him that I might be greatly feared 
6 and that he might be awed at my name. The law of truth was 
in his mouth; and iniquity should not have been found in his 
lips. Walking uprightly with me in peace, he indeed turned 
7 many from iniquity. Because the lips of a priest were to keep 
knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his: mouth; 
8 since he isa messenger of the Lord Almighty: but as for you, 
you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by 
law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord 
9 Almighty, therefore I have made you contemptible and out- 
casts among all the nations, because ycu did not keep my 
ways, but in law have had respect to persons. 

10 Have younot all one father? Hath not one God created 
you? Why then have you forsaken every one his brother? For 
profaning the covenant of your fathers, Juda was forsaken. 

11 There was indeed abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem, be- 
cause Juda profaned the holy things of the Lord in which he 

12 delighted and studiously went after strange gods. The Lord 
will cut off the man who doth such things until he be humbled 
from the dwellings of Jacob and from among them who offer 
a sacrifice to the Lord Almighty. 

13 Moreover you have done those things which I hate. You 
have covered the altar of the Lord with tears. And amidst la- 
mentations and groans for oppression is it still proper to look 

14 upon a sacrifice,or receive it acceptably at your hands? And do 
you say, Why not? Because God was a witness between thee 
and the wife of thy youth whom thou hast forsaken, though 

15 she was thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. Now 
did not he who had the residue of spirit, do right? Yet you 
have said, “ What else but a seed doth God require?” But 
keep this in your mind, ‘ Thou must not forsake the wife of 
thy youth.” 

16 (4) “‘ But if thou having hated shalt put away—saith the 
Lord God of Israel.” 


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Ill. -MALACHI. 


(b) And will impiety, saith the Lord Almighty puta cloak 
over thy lusts? Therefore keep this i in your mind, ‘You must 
not forsake.” 

You have provoked God with your sayings. And do you 
ask, By what have we provoked him? By your saying, “ Every 
one domg evil doth that which is good in the sight of the 
Lord.”” Now were he well pleased with such; where then is 
the God of Righteousness? 


Behold I am about to send my messenger thd he will ex- 
amine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek—even 
the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come sudden- 
ly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Al- 
mighty. And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who 
can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of 
a refiner’s furnace; and like the soap of the fullers. He will sit 
refining and purifying and will purify the sons of Levi like the 
silver and gold, and melt them like the gold and silver. 
Then shall they offer to the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness 
and the sacrifice of Juda and Jerusalem will please the Lord as 
in the days of old and as in former years. And I will bring to 
judgment before you and be a swift witness’ against sorcerers, 
and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my 
name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling 
of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who 
buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the 
stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Al- 
mighty. Because I the Lord am your God and change not; 
but you the sons of Jacob do not abstain from the iniquities 
of your fathers—you have turned aside my statutes and have 
not kept them: turn to me and I will turn to you, saith the Lord 
Almighty. Do you say, Wherein shall we turn? 

Witla man supplant God? For you supplant me: and will 
you say, wherein have we supplanted thee? Because the tythes 
and the first fruits are with you, and you view them again and 
again and supplant me. 

The year is ended and you Pa carried the products into 


nance an 


(a) The objection. (b) The answer. 


Ch. IV. MALACHI. 


your stores. Now let that which hath been plundered from him 
be in his house. Turn now im this respect, saith the Lord Al- 
mighty: (see) if I will not open for you the flood gates of hea- 
ven and pour my blessing upon you, until there is enough; 
11 and send you it for food and no more destroy the fruit of your 
land; so that your vine shall no more be sickly in the field, 
12 saith the Lord Almighty, and all the nations will hail you hap- 
py: for you will be a beloved land, saith the Lord Almighty. 
13 You have brought heavy accusations against me, saith the 
Lord. 
Do you say, in what instance have we spoken against thee? 
14 You say, “Vain is he who serveth God: and what advantage is 
it, that we have kept his charges. For though we have walk- 
15 edas supplicants before the Lord Almighty, yet we now call 
strangers happy; and all that do unlawful things are built up. 
Though they opposed God; yet they are saved.” 
16 Against these things they who feared the Lord spoke to one 
~ another; and the Lord hearkened and heard and wrote a book 
of remembrance before him for them who fear the Lord and 
revere his name. 
17 And they shall be, saith the Lord Almighty, an acquisition 
for me, on the day which I make; and I will make choice of 
18 them, as a man maketh choice of a son who serveth him. And 
when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference be- 
tween a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and be- 
IV. tween him who serveth God and him who serveth not. For 
behold a day is coming, heated like an oven, which shall set 
them on fire. And all aliens and all workers of iniquity shall be 
like stubble. The day which is coming shall blaze upon them, 
saith the Lord Almighty, and of them neither root nor branch 
2 shall be left. But to you who fear my name the son of righte- 
ousness will arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go 
forth and leap for joy like young bullocks loosed from yokes. 
3 And you shall trample down the wicked, for they will be like 
ashes under your feet, on the day which I make, saith the Lord 
Almighty. 
5 Now behold I will send you Elias the Thesbite before that 
6 great and awful day of the Lord cometh; who will turn the 
heart of father to son and the heart of one man to another 


Ch. IV. MALACHI, 


that I may not come and smite the land with utter destruction. 
4 Remember the law of Moses my servant, as I gave him in 
charge at Choreb statutes and rules of rectitude for all Israel. 


EWD OF THE OLD COVENANT. 


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NOTE. ite 


Zacharias 1X. 1. A Burden.) This, and the five following Chap- 
ters, though added te what Zacharias wrote, appear evidently, from 
the style and subjects, to be the work of another. The Evangelist 
Matthew, in his quotation, (Chap. II.) ascribes them to Feremzas. And 
it must be allowed that the contents of these chapters agree well with 
the time of Feremias, but by no means with that of Zacharias. And 
the same may be said with respect to the style, which corresponds 
with that of ¥eremias, but not in the least with that of Ζαολανταῦ: 
From the words of the Evangelist it would appear, that in his time, 
they were considered as being written by Yeremias :—and it is to be 
observed that in some ancient manuscripts, there is a large vacant 
space between the end of Chap. VIII. and IX. to vile aadbeaeaie what 
precedes, from that which follows. 


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ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. 
» 


THE words printed in italics in this Translation, are not 
added by the Translator, as in our common version ; but are thus 
designated, as being emphatical. Such as have been added, are 
included in [ Ἵ. 

Names of Persons and Places mentioned in the Old Testa. 
ment are spelled as in the Septuagint ; and in the position of 


chapters, and parts of chapters, the order observed in that ver. - 


sion, has, in general, been strictly attended to: there are, how- 
ever, a very few deviations from this rule, which the sense and 
connection seemed to require ; but the numbers annexed to such: 
chapters and verses will point out their relative situation in the 
Greek : an instance of this kind occurs in Job, XL. and XLII. 
and in the position and arrangement of the chapters or discourses 
of Jeremias, from chapter XX. to XLVI. 

The numbers of the chapters and verses, (so far as it was 
thought necessary to retain them) are inserted for the sake of 
those who may wish to compare this Translation with that in 
common use. 


_ The following Errata have been observed, which the reader is 
requested to correct with his pen: 


Deut. 14. 11. For vulure read vulture. 
1. Kings, 4. 16. came the from came from the. 
Ἢ 14. 33. eight etghth. 
4, 21. 9. kearkened hearkened. 
1. Chron. 24. 5. pressnce presence. 
2. 13. 2. daugter daughter. 
86... 5. them him. 
Psalm 93. 1. commended commenced. 
Job; 1...18;: thy daughters thy sons and thy 
daughters. 
Evel. 494.51; thoughtfulness thoughtlessness. 


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